Clinical Guidelines and Clinical Decision Support System

During the post-World War II era there has been a huge boom in introduction of new medical therapies and in improvement of health care systems. New methods are used to increase the efficiency of medical treatment by combination of knowledge derived from the literature, clinical guidelines made on practice-based evidence, and a dialogue between healthcare professionals, clinicians and patients. And furthermore, the medical societies now focus on the different guideline programme, operating at a national level that incorporates both clinical and cost effectiveness and introduces to the discussion about the medical care a health economist, whose role is to monitor the cash flow. The practice guideline demands processing of large amounts of diverse information, practitioners can accomplish having a working system only if they continually update their own medical knowledge and consistently place newly acquired knowledge in context with existing information to produce a beneficial impact on the clinical practice. You can be never sure if the guideline is still valid or whether it needs improvement. Clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) have been hailed for their potential to reduce medical errors and increase health care quality and efficiency. At the same time, evidence-based medicine has been widely promoted as a means of improving clinical outcomes, where evidencebased medicine refers to the practice of medicine based on the best available scientific evidence. The use of CDSSs to facilitate evidence-based medicine therefore promises to substantially improve health care quality.