Background: Despite increasing emphasis on the role of clinical decision-support systems
(CDSSs) for improving care and reducing costs, evidence to support widespread use is …

Background: Experts consider health information technology key to improving efficiency and
quality of health care. Purpose: To systematically review evidence on the effect of health …

Introduction: Adverse events in hospitals constitute a serious problem with grave
consequences. Many studies have been conducted to gain an insight into this problem, but …

ContextDevelopers of health care software have attributed improvements in patient care to
these applications. As with any health care intervention, such claims require confirmation in …

The UMLS Metathesaurus, the largest thesaurus in the biomedical domain, provides a
representation of biomedical knowledge consisting of concepts classified by semantic type …

Objectives To identify factors that differentiate between effective and ineffective
computerised clinical decision support systems in terms of improvements in the process of …

While evidence-based medicine has increasingly broad-based support in health care, it
remains difficult to get physicians to actually practice it. Across most domains in medicine …

Information technology can improve patient safety by preventing errors and facilitating rapid
response to adverse events. Computerized prescribing by physicians reduces the rate of …

Background Iatrogenic injuries related to medications are common, costly, and clinically
significant. Computerized physician order entry (CPOE) and clinical decision support …

Context.—Many computer software developers and vendors claim that their systems can
directly improve clinical decisions. As for other health care interventions, such claims should …