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Clinical Decision Support Systems

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This chapter reviews the use of clinical diagnostic decision support systems (CDDSS) for educating physicians, nurses, physician-assistants, and other medical professionals. The discussion of this topic is quite timely. Informatics technologies and decision support systems are now widely considered to be an important component of medical curricula and the medical education journal Academic Medicine now includes a regular informatics column.1 Professional societies have also recognized this trend. The Society of General Internal Medicine and the American Board of Internal Medicine have recently established training standards for internists which include literature searching, use of decision making tools, and other informatics technologies. CDDSS can provide domain specific, case-based, clinical experiences for students to supplement actual patient experiences, which can be highly variable.

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  1. Informatics Program, Department of Health Services Administration, School of Health Related Professions, 1675 University Boulevard, Room 544, Birmingham, AL, 35294-8219, USA

    Eta S. Berner EdD (Professor, Masters of Science in Health) (Professor, Masters of Science in Health)

  2. Section of Medical Informatics, Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Alabama, 1675 University Boulevard, Room 544, Birmingham, AL, 35294-8219, USA

    Eta S. Berner EdD (Professor, Masters of Science in Health) (Professor, Masters of Science in Health)

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Lincoln, M.J. (1999). Medical Education Applications. In: Berner, E.S. (eds) Clinical Decision Support Systems. Health Informatics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3903-9_5

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