This book provides a comprehensive and timely introduction to clinical decision support systems, coming at a time when electronic health records are being routinely used in clinical practice, and clinical decision support systems are seeing more use.

Building on the success of the previous editions, Clinical Decision Support Systems: Theory and Practice, Third Edition, once again brings together worldwide experts to illustrate the underlying science and day-to-day use of decision support systems in clinical and educational settings. This fully revised and updated edition is essential reading for informatics specialists, teachers and students in health or medical informatics training programs, and clinicians, with or without expertise in the applications of computers in medicine, who are interested in learning about current developmentsin computer-based clinical decision support systems.

Autorentext
Eta S. Berner, EdD, is a Professor of Health Informatics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Zusammenfassung
Building on the success of the previous editions, this fully updated book once again brings together worldwide experts to illustrate the underlying science and day-to-day use of decision support systems in clinical and educational settings. Topics discussed include:

-Mathematical Foundations of Decision Support Systems
-Design and Implementation Issues
-Ethical and Legal Issues in Decision Support
-Clinical Trials of Information Interventions
-Hospital-Based Decision Support
-Real World Case Studies

Inhalt

Chapter 1 Overview of Clinical Decision Support Systems.- Chapter 2 Mathematical Foundations of Decision Support Systems.- Chapter 3 Data Mining and Clinical Decision Support Systems.- Chapter 4 Usability and Clinical Decision Support.- Chapter 5 Newer Architectures for Clinical Decision Support.- Chapter 6 Best Practices for Implementation of Clinical Decision Support.- Chapter 7 Impact of National Policies on the Use of Clinical Decision Support.- Chapter 8 Ethical and Legal Issues in Decision Support.- Chapter 9 Evaluation of Clinical Decision Support.- Chapter 11 Diagnostic Decision Support Systems.- Chapter 10 Decision Support for Patients.- Chapter 12 Use of Clinical Decision Support to Tailor Drug Therapy based on Genomics.- Chapter 13 Clinical Decision Support.- Chapter 14 Clinical Decision Support at Intermountain Healthcare.- Chapter 15 Decision Support During Inpatient Care Provider Order Entry.