Clinical Decision Support Systems

How Clinical Decision Support Systems Improves Quality and Safety of Patient care
The CDSS improves the quality and safety of patient care by the following:
Eliminating the need for unnecessary or incidences of duplicate tests.
Preventing and reducing the risk of costly and life-threatening health complications (Musen, Middleton, & Greenes, 2014).
Providing the right information at the required time to ensure correct decisions
Reducing the risk of errors during patient care processes (Musen, Middleton, & Greenes, 2014).
Encouraging technological improvement to promote a reliable communication system in hospitals.
Providing a more accurate data analysis platform to minimize data errors.
Evidence that CDSS Improves Care Quality and Safety
Evidence that adopting CDSS improves patient safety and quality of care include:
Providing information on time to prevent wrong decisions (Musen, Middleton, & Greenes, 2014) which
Reduces the length of hospital stay.Reduces the rate of readmission among patients (Musen, Middleton, & Greenes, 2014).
Reduces patient injury rates and hospital-acquired complications (Musen, Middleton, & Greenes, 2014).
Provides recommendations for care, which increases the chances that care providers reevaluate their decisions when the system implies the presence of errors.
Disadvantages of not Adopting CDSS
The failure to adopt CDSS can be associated with shortcomings such as:
A hospital does not exploit the chance to improv…