There is a need to improve dementia care in Sweden. The main issues discussed are how to improve the competence of medical personnel and the quality of diagnosis and intervention. This thesis describes the development of a clinical decision-support system (CDSS) for the domain, which is considered one way to support diagnosis of cognitive diseases and choices of interventions, as well as to pro...

Background: Diabetes is a serious chronic disease, and its increasing prevalence is a global concern. If diabetes mellitus is left untreated, poor control of blood glucose may cause long-term complications. A big challenge encountered by clinicians is the clinical management of diabetes. Many IT-based interventions such ad CDSS have been made to improve the adherence to the standard care for ch...

Clinical decision support systems (CDSS) are developed independently or connected to the electronic health record (EHR) other computerized systems. The study begins with identification by searching literature through Google Scholar, PubMed and ScienceDirect databases. search results obtained 5,595 articles. Forty-two articles were obtained, which used further. Most of research focus is on "CDSS...

OBJECTIVES To explore the influence of a guideline-based computerised decision support system (CDSS) on general practitioners' (GPs') management of patient cases of chronic heart failure in a pragmatic clinical situation. We assessed changes in the GPs' confidence in the diagnosis, their considerations about investigations and medications and the support they perceived from using the CDSS. ST...

Ischemic Heart Disease (IHD) is difficult to diagnose since most of the symptoms and clinical presentations are similar to other diseases. It is a very common, harmful disease, which is identified mostly during the mortality of an individual. The objective is to build a clinical decision support system, which will diagnose the presence of IHD with an integrated automated classifier using Artifi...

BACKGROUND Despite wide promotion, clinical practice guidelines have had limited effect in changing physician behavior. Effective implementation strategies to date have included: multifaceted interventions involving audit and feedback, local consensus processes, marketing; reminder systems, either manual or computerized; and interactive educational meetings. In addition, there is now growing ev...

BACKGROUND Computerized decision support systems (CDSSs) have the potential to significantly improve the quality of nursing care of older people by enhancing the decision making of nursing personnel. Despite this potential, health care organizations have been slow to incorporate CDSSs into nursing home practices. OBJECTIVE This study describes facilitators and barriers that impact the ability...

Hypertension is a main public health problem around the globe associated with high death rates. Many clinical decision support systems (CDSS) exist to assist doctors with decision making tasks in the domain of hypertension. Most of these systems are implemented using traditional database methodologies. These systems cannot handle huge amount of data sets. Analyzing, interpreting and processing ...

Overview. The Computerized Decision Support System project (CDSS) develops and evaluates a web-based computer system for bone marrow transplant (BMT) long-term follow-up (LTFU) at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC). The CDSS system aims at providing an information and knowledge resource capable of assisting the clinical work of users having very diverse expertise levels in BMT p...