Background The opportunity to improve care by delivering decision support to clinicians at
the point of care represents one of the main incentives for implementing sophisticated …

Background Clinical practice does not always reflect best practice and evidence, partly
because of unconscious acts of omission, information overload, or inaccessible information …

Background Studies have shown that telephone interventions designed to promote patients'
self-management skills and improve patient–physician communication can increase …

Background Computerized clinical decision support systems (CCDSSs) are claimed to
improve processes and outcomes of primary preventive care (PPC), but their effects, safety …

The concept of personalized medicine—that medical care can be tailored to the genomic
and molecular profile of the individual—has repercussions that extend far beyond the …

Background Underuse and overuse of diagnostic tests have important implications for health
outcomes and costs. Decision support technology purports to optimize the use of diagnostic …

Background Computerized clinical decision support systems (CCDSSs) for drug therapy
management are designed to promote safe and effective medication use. Evidence …

INTRODUCTION: Clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) should be seamlessly
integrated with existing clinical information systems to enable automatic provision of advice …

Background Computerized decision support systems (CDSS) are believed to have the
potential to improve the quality of health care delivery, although results from high quality …

Abstract Objective The US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality funded an evidence
report to address seven questions on multiple aspects of the effectiveness of medication …