Challenges for Decision Support Systems

Drug-Drug Interaction Clinical Decision Support Systems: Advantages, Challenges and Barriers, and Strategies to Overcome Them

Drug-drug interactions (DDIs) are a common source of preventable medical errors in inpatient and outpatient settings of both developed and developing countries. When two or more drugs are simultaneously prescribed, interactions between their effects may result in preventable adverse events such as damages to vital organs, frequent hospitalizations, prolonged length of hospital stay, and increas...

Drug-Drug Interaction Clinical Decision Support Systems: Advantages, Challenges and Barriers, and Strategies to Overcome Them

Drug-drug interactions (DDIs) are a common source of preventable medical errors in inpatient and outpatient settings of both developed and developing countries. When two or more drugs are simultaneously prescribed, interactions between their effects may result in preventable adverse events such as damages to vital organs, frequent hospitalizations, prolonged length of hospital stay, and increas...

Challenges in Climate-Driven Decision Support Systems in Forestry

Environmental decision support systems (EDSS) development - Challenges and best practices

Despite the perceived value of DSS in informing environmental and natural resource management, DSS tools often fail to be adopted by intended end users. By drawing together the experience of a global group of EDSS developers, we have identified and assessed key challenges in EDSS development and offer recommendations to resolve them. Challenges related to engaging end users in EDSS development ...

Challenges in Delivering Decision Support Systems: The MATE Experience

Cancer Multidisciplinary Meeting (MDM) is a widely endorsed mechanism for ensuring high quality evidence-based health care. However, there are shortcomings that couldultimately result inunintended patient harm. On the other hand, clinical guidelines and clinical decision support systems (DSS)havebeen shown to improvedecision-making invarious measures. Nevertheless, their clinical use requires s...