Clinical Decision Support Systems: Theory and Practice

✍ Scribed by Eta S. Berner EdD, FCMI, FHIMSS, Tonya J. La Lande (auth.), Eta S. Berner EdD, FACMI, FHIMSS (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 278
• Series: Health Informatics
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Overview of Clinical Decision Support Systems....Pages 3-22
Mathematical Foundations of Decision Support Systems....Pages 23-43
Data Mining and Clinical Decision Support Systems....Pages 44-63
Design and Implementation Issues....Pages 64-98
Diagnostic Decision Support Systems....Pages 99-125
Ethical and Legal Issues in Decision Support....Pages 126-139
Clinical Trials of Information Interventions....Pages 140-155
Front Matter....Pages 157-157
Clinical Decision Support at Intermountain Healthcare....Pages 159-189
Clinical Decision Support Within the Regenstrief Medical Record System....Pages 190-214
Decision Support During Inpatient Care Provider Order Entry: The Vanderbilt Experience....Pages 215-248
Decision Support for Patients....Pages 249-261
Back Matter....Pages 263-269

✦ Subjects

Health Informatics