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).MYCIN , one of the CDS tool was developed in 1970 by Dr. Ted Shortliffee.MYCIN was designed to behave like an expert medical consultant. Similar other CDS tools are listed in "Examples of Early CDS" section.

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
   INTERNIST-1/QMR
   DXplain
   Antibiotic Assistant
   Regenstrief CDS


References

  1. 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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