Earlier Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Tools

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Clinical Decision Support(CDS)

Clinical decision support (CDS) provides clinicians, staff, patients or other individuals with knowledge and person-specific information, intelligently filtered or presented at appropriate times, to enhance health and healthcare.Source(Osheroff, et al., 2007).

Clinical Decision Support provide two levels of information which are "General Medical Knowledge and Information" that includes information on Disease, diagnosis, medications, treatments formularies, guidelines, requirements; and "Patient-Specific Information" includes information on Patient’s signs, symptoms Allergies,Lab results etc. 

= Examples of Early CDS=

MYCIN

MYCIN INTERNIST-1/QMR DXplain Antibiotic Assistant Regenstrief CDS


Reference: Osheroff J, editor. Improving medication use and outcomes with clinical decision support: a step-by-step guide. 1st ed. Chicago: HIMSS, 2009.

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