title: Decision support in the United Kingdom for general practice: past, present, and future.
abstract: This paper looks at three aspects of Decision Support in the UK in relation to primary health care: 1) the past history; 2) the extent and use of clinical computing in general practice today, with the growing appearance of decision support systems; and 3) a brief report from a vision building workshop hosted by 'DECSI' to look at the need doctors will have for decision support in primary health care in the future.
authors.affiliation: DECSI Project, Anglia & Oxford Regional Health Authority, Cochrane Centre, Oxford, England.
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Young
authors.forename: K B
authors.initials: KB
authors.lastname: Beswick
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001292:Attitude to Computers; D002985:Clinical Protocols; D003658:Decision Making, Computer-Assisted; D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D005103:Expert Systems; D005194:Family Practice / Q000639:trends*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D010821:Physicians, Family / Q000523:psychology; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000639:trends*; D013222:State Medicine; D018511:Systems Integration; D006113:United Kingdom