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Computer-based clinical decision support for general practitioners.

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posted on 2022-04-04, 13:24 authored by Mark MurphyMark Murphy, Tom FaheyTom Fahey, Susan SmithSusan Smith

A GP makes many decisions within every consultation. A computer-based clinical decision support system (CDSS) is software designed to support this decision making. It matches individual patient characteristics to a computerized clinical knowledge base and then provides patient-specific assessments or recommendations to the clinician to support a decision that can relate to diagnosis, investigation, prognosis or treatment. CDSSs offers the potential to translate the most up to date and robust evidence into practice. An example would include a GP being prompted to use a clinical prediction rule for pharyngitis (such as the Centor score) through a CDSS integrated into the electronic health record, after typing the word ‘sore throat’, with suggested management options then being delivered to the GP.

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Health Research Board, Ireland through the HRB Centre for Primary Care Research (grant HRC/2007/1)

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This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Family Practice following peer review. The version of record Murphy ME, Fahey T, Smith SM. Computer-based clinical decision support for GP. Family Practice. 2014;31(5):497-498 is available online at: http://fampra.oxfordjournals.org/content/31/5/497

Published Citation

Murphy ME, Fahey T, Smith SM. Computer-based clinical decision support for GP. Family Practice. 2014;31(5):497-498.

Publication Date

2014-08-05

PubMed ID

25096276

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  • General Practice
  • HRB Centre for Primary Care Research

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