This is a reference on clinical decision support systems for informatics specialists, a textbook and a comprehensive introduction for clinicians. Experts in design, evaluation and application of these systems examine their impact from both the practitioner's and the patient's perspective.

This book is designed to be primarily a resource book on clinical decision support systems for informatics specialists. Secondly, it is a textbook for teachers or students in health informatics. Finally, it offers a comprehensive introduction for clinicians, whether or not expert in the application of computers in medicine, who wish to learn about current developments in computer-based diagnostic systems. In addition, the book takes a novel look at CDS systems from the point of both the practitioner as well as the patient. In recent years, it has become obvious that, in addition to physicians, other health professionals have need of decision support. Therefore, the issues raised in this book apply to a broad range of clinicians. Building on the success of the 1998 edition this 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.

This book is both a resource for clinical decision support systems for informatics specialists as well as a reference for students in health informatics or medical informatics training programs Includes chapters by nationally and internationally recognized experts on the design, evaluation and application of CDS systems Takes a novel look at CDS systems from the point of both the practitioner as well as the patient

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Building on the success of the 1998 edition, Clinical Decision Support Systems: Theory and Practice , Second Edition, once again brings together worldwide experts to illustrate the underlying science and day-to-day use of decision support systmes in clinical and educational settings.

Writes the editor, "If used properly, CDSS have the potential to change the way medicine has been taught and practiced." As clinical decision support systems (CDSS) gain an increasingly central role in the delivery of high quality health care, it becomes more important for the health care community to understand their use. This text is designed as a resource for practicing clinicians, informaticians, teachers and students alike, and provides the most current, comprehensive look a the development and evaluation of clinical decision support systems.

Topics discussed include:

-Mathematical Foundations of Decision Support Systems

-Design and Implementation Issues

-Ethical and Legal Issues in Decision Support

-Clinical Trials of Information Interventians

-Hospital-Based Decision Support

-Real World Case Studies

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

Inhalt
Development and Evaluation of Clinical Decision Support Systems.- Overview of Clinical Decision Support Systems.- Mathematical Foundations of Decision Support Systems.- Data Mining and Clinical Decision Support Systems.- Design and Implementation Issues.- Diagnostic Decision Support Systems.- Ethical and Legal Issues in Decision Support.- Clinical Trials of Information Interventions.- Applications of Clinical Decision Support Systems in Clinical Practice.- Clinical Decision Support at Intermountain Healthcare.- Clinical Decision Support Within the Regenstrief Medical Record System.- Decision Support During Inpatient Care Provider Order Entry: The Vanderbilt Experience.- Decision Support for Patients.