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ADE surveillance, reporting.


ADE Assistant is designed to perform automated trigger-based surveillance and enhanced voluntary reporting of adverse drug events (ADEs) in hospitalized patients. To infer possible ADEs, it monitors and evaluates critical patient data stored within diverse systems such as ADT (Asynchronous Data Transfer) A transmission technique used in ISDN PBXs that dynamically allocates bandwidth. See also abstract data type.

ADT - abstract data type
, laboratory, pharmacy, radiology radiology, branch of medicine specializing in the use of X rays, gamma rays, radioactive isotopes, and other forms of radiation in the diagnosis and treatment of disease.  and nursing. The continuous, hospitalwide surveillance and inference (logic) inference - The logical process by which new facts are derived from known facts by the application of inference rules.

See also symbolic inference, type inference.
 technology lets hospitals detect, evaluate, characterize, document and report ADEs in real time. Suspected ADEs are submitted with four clicks from any mobile or Internet-connected device. Observed events documented by the voluntary reporting tool automatically trigger an intelligent alert to the clinician clinician /cli·ni·cian/ (kli-nish´in) an expert clinical physician and teacher.

cli·ni·cian
n.
 responsible for ADE surveillance. Other features include documentation of the drug causing the ADE and the clinical result of the event, online causality causality, in philosophy, the relationship between cause and effect. A distinction is often made between a cause that produces something new (e.g., a moth from a caterpillar) and one that produces a change in an existing substance (e.g.  assessments and severity scoring, and archiving of reported ADEs. TheraDoc Inc., Salt Lake City

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Title Annotation:New Products & Services; adverse drug events; TheraDoc Inc.
Publication:Health Management Technology
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Date:Apr 1, 2004
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