Clinical Decision Support Systems

Hardcover: 292 pages
ISBN 0387339140
978-0-387-33914-6
Springer-Verlag
December 2006
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This is a resource book on clinical decision support systems for informatics specialists, a resource for teachers or students in health informatics, and a comprehensive introduction for practicing clinicians.

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. The book includes chapters written by internationally recognized experts on the design, evaluation and application of these systems, who examine the impact of computer-based diagnostic tools both from the practitioner’s perspective and that of the patient.

The book also examines the impact of practitioner and patient use of computer-based diagnostic tools.

Written by nationally and internationally recognized experts on the design, evaluation and application of such systems, this book examines the impact of practitioner and patient use of computer-based diagnostic tools. Topics fully covered include:

Overview of CDSS.
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.
Hospital-Based Decision Support.
Clinical Decision Support within the Regenstrief Medical Record System.
Decision Support during Inpatient Care Provider Order Entry (CPOE): The Vanderbilt Experience.
Decision Support for Patients.

It serves as a resource book on diagnostic systems and as a comprehensive introduction for clinicians. Designed for a broad range of clinicians in need of decision support. This book is used as:

a resource book on diagnostic systems for informatics specialists.
a comprehensive introduction for clinicians, with or without expertise in the applications of computers in medicine, who are interested in learning about current developments in computer-based diagnostic systems.
or as a textbook for teachers or students in health or medical informatics training programs.

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