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Letters |1 October 1997

Information about Quality of Care

Clement J. McDonald, MD; Raymond D. Aller, MD

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  • Regenstrief Institute for Health Care; Indianapolis, IN 46202 University of Utah School of Medicine; Salt Lake City, UT 84132
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TO THE EDITOR:
We side with Pine and colleagues [1] against Iezzoni's [2] pessimistic conclusions about electronic laboratory data. Computer-based laboratory reporting systems are present in most hospitals with more than 200 beds, and standards for electronic messages (such as ASTM [American Society for Testing and Materials] E1238 or HL7 [Health Level 7]) [3] are widely used. Mayo Clinical Laboratories and ARUP Laboratories, for example, each have more than 100 standards-based electronic interfaces operating between their referral laboratories and clients around the United States. All of the major vendors of laboratory information systems support ASTM and HL7 (64 of 67...
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McDonald CJ, Aller RD. Information about Quality of Care. Ann Intern Med. 1997;127:575. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-127-7-199710010-00022

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Published: Ann Intern Med. 1997;127(7):575.

DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-127-7-199710010-00022

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