Institute:Office of National Coordinator (ONC) Workforce Training Curriculum
Component:Introduction to Health Care and Public Health in the U.S.
Unit:Evolution of and Trends in Health Care in the U.S.
Lecture:Evidence-Based Medicine
Slide content:Clinical Decision Support, CDS - 1 ...a clinical system, application or process that helps health professionals make clinical decisions to enhance patient care Active knowledge systems that use two or more items of patient data to generate case-specific advice Greenes, 2014 6
Slide notes:Evidence-based medicine can also be implemented by using clinical decision support. So, what is clinical decision support, or CDS? CDS is a clinical system, application, or process that helps health professionals make clinical decisions to enhance patient care. Clinical Decision Support Systems are active knowledge systems that use two or more items of patient data to generate care-specific advice. A recent reference about the state of the art in CDS is edited by Greenes et al. 6