While medications can improve patients' health, the process of prescribing them is complex
and error prone, and medication errors cause many preventable injuries. Computer provider …

… Jay Biem, Niels Koehncke, Dale Classen and James Dosman … Classen wrote the section
on local cold-induced injury. Drs. Koehncke and Dosman retrieved literature and edited article …

Background. Randomized, controlled trials have shown that prophylactic antibiotics are
effective in preventing surgical-wound infections. However, it is uncertain how the timing of …

… Evans RS, Classen DC, Stevens LE, et al. Using a hospital information system to assess the
… Classen DC. Assessing the Impact of Adverse Hospital Events on the Cost of Hospitalization …

Background and Methods Optimal decisions about the use of antibiotics and other antiinfective
agents in critically ill patients require access to a large amount of complex information. …

… In this issue of Health Affairs , David Classen and his coauthors report … Classen, like most
of his fellow authors, is a patient safety … In that capacity, Classen has led several patient safety …

Objective. —To develop a new method to improve the detection and characterization of
adverse drug events (ADEs) in hospital patients. Design. —Prospective study of all patients …

Previously published guidelines are available that provide comprehensive recommendations
for detecting and preventing healthcare-associated infections. The intent of this document …

Previously published guidelines are available that provide comprehensive recommendations
for detecting and preventing healthcare-associated infections. The intent of this document …

Objective: To determine the clinical and financial outcomes of antibiotic practice guidelines
implemented through computer-assisted decision support. Design: Descriptive epidemiologic …