title: Decision time for clinical decision support systems.
abstract: Clinical decision support systems are interactive software systems designed to help clinicians with decision-making tasks, such as determining a diagnosis or recommending a treatment for a patient. Clinical decision support systems are a widely researched topic in the computer science community, but their inner workings are less well understood by, and known to, clinicians. This article provides a brief explanation of clinical decision support systems and some examples of real-world systems. It also describes some of the challenges to implementing these systems in clinical environments and posits some reasons for the limited adoption of decision-support systems in practice. It aims to engage clinicians in the development of decision support systems that can meaningfully help with their decision-making tasks and to open a discussion about the future of automated clinical decision support as a part of healthcare delivery.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Health Informatics, City University London, UK Dympna.O'Sullivan.1@city.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Dympna
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: O'Sullivan
authors.affiliation: Centre for Health Informatics, City University London, UK.
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Fraccaro
authors.affiliation: Centre for Health Informatics, City University London, UK.
authors.forename: Ewart
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Carson
authors.affiliation: Centre for Health Informatics, City University London, UK.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Weller
mesh_terms: D003657:Decision Making; D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical / Q000145:classification
keywords: Clinical decision support systems; decision-making; diagnosis
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