Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) aim to improve the quality of care, reduce unjustified
practice variations and reduce healthcare costs. In order for them to be effective, clinical …

Mental health and substance use disorders affect approximately 20 percent of Americans
and are associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Although a wide range of …

Promoting patient safety is a national priority. To evaluate interventions for reducing medical
errors and adverse event, effective methods for detecting such events are required. This …

OBJECTIVE: Changes in DSM-IV were guided by empirical data that mostly focused on
improving diagnostic validity and reliability. Although many changes were made explicitly to …

The objective of this review is to describe the implementation of human factors principles for
the design of alerts in clinical information systems. First, we conduct a review of alarm …

Objective There is a need to integrate the various theoretical frameworks and formalisms for
modeling clinical guidelines, workflows, and pathways, in order to move beyond providing …

Computer-assisted provider order entry is a technology that is designed to expedite medical
ordering and to reduce the frequency of preventable errors. This paper presents a …

Reasoning strategies are a key component in many medical tasks, including decision
making, clinical problem solving, and understanding of medical texts. Identification of …

Objective: The aim of this paper is to examine knowledge organization and reasoning
strategies involved in physician–patient communication and to consider how these are …

Objective Our objective was to develop an evaluation framework for electronic health record
(EHR)-integrated innovations to support evaluation activities at each of four information …