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Overview of Clinical Decision Support Systems

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Clinical decision support systems (CDSS) are computer systems designed to impact clinician decision making about individual patients at the point in time that these decisions are made. With the increased focus on the prevention of medical errors that has occurred since the publication of the landmark Institute of Medicine report, To Err Is Human, CDSS have been a key element of systems’ approaches to improving patient safety and the quality of care and have been a key requirement for “meaningful use” of electronic health records (EHRs). This chapter will provide an overview of clinical decision support systems, summarize current data on the use and impact of clinical decision support systems in practice, and will provide guidelines for users to consider as these systems are incorporated in commercial systems, and implemented outside the research and development settings. The other chapters in this book will explore these issues in more depth.

This chapter is an updated version of Chap. 36 in Ball MJ, Weaver C, Kiel J (eds.). Healthcare Information Management Systems, Third Edition, New York: Springer-Verlag, 2004, 463–477, with permission of Springer.

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Berner, E.S., La Lande, T.J. (2016). Overview of Clinical Decision Support Systems. In: Berner, E. (eds) Clinical Decision Support Systems. Health Informatics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31913-1_1

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