====== Clinical decision support system ======

A [[clinical decision]] support system (CDSS) is a health information technology system that is designed to provide physicians and other health professionals with clinical decision support (CDS), that is, assistance with clinical decision-making tasks. A working definition has been proposed by Robert Hayward of the Centre for Health Evidence: "Clinical decision support systems link health observations with health knowledge to influence health choices by clinicians for improved Healthcare".

CDSSs constitute a major topic in [[artificial intelligence]] in medicine.
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1) automatic provision of decision

2) provision of [[recommendation]]s rather than just assessments,

3) usage of decision support at the time and location of decision making,

4) computer based decision support
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[[Evidence-based guidelines]] (EBGs) are an early-phase model of a Clinical decision support system (CDSS). While they do aid the physician by presenting scientifically based evidence during the decision-making process
((Djulbegovic B, Guyatt GH. Progress in evidence-based medicine: a quarter century on. Lancet. 2017;390(10092):415-423.))
((Vachhrajani S, Kulkarni AV, Kestle JRW. Clinical practice guidelines. J Neurosurg Pediatrics. 2009;3(4):249-256.)).