Clinical decision support (CDS) provides clinicians, staff, patients or other individuals with knowledge and person-specific information, intelligently filtered and presented at appropriate times, to enhance health and healthcare.
Statements and Guidelines
Design of Database-Driven Clinical Decision Support: Strategic Directions for Drug Database and Electronic Health Records Vendors [PDF] ASHP
ISMP Guidelines for Standard Order Sets [PDF]
ISMP New Recommendations to Improve Drug Allergy Capture and Clinical Decision Support
Articles
Integrating pharmacogenomics into electronic health records with clinical decision support
Improving medication-related clinical decision support
Monitoring clinical decision support in the electronic health record
Implementation of clinical decision support rules
Systematic review of computerized prescriber order entry and clinical decision support
Use of clinical decision support to identify i.v.-to-oral conversion opportunities and cost savings
Optimization of clinical decision support through minimization of excessive drug allergy alerts
Clinical decision support during electronic prescribing for elderly patients
Turning off frequently overridden drug alerts: limited opportunities for doing it safely
Development of an intelligent decision support system for medication review
Medication-related clinical decision support in computerized provider order entry systems: a review
Other Resources
AHRQ - Clinical Decision Support
AHRQ Patient Safety Net - Alert Fatigue