Assessment of Readiness for Clinical Decision Support to Aid Laboratory Monitoring of Immunosuppressive Care at U.S. Liver Transplant Centers

Keywords

Organ transplantation - clinical decision support systems - clinical laboratory information systems - information management - clinical protocols

 

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