Clinical Decision Making by Emergency Room Physicians and Residents

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Author(s): Ken J. Farion (Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Canada), Michael J. Hine (Carleton University, Canada), Wojtek Michalowski (University of Ottawa, Canada)and Szymon Wilk (Poznan University of Technology, Poland)
Copyright: 2008
Pages: 7
Source title: Encyclopedia of Healthcare Information Systems
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Nilmini Wickramasinghe (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)and Eliezer Geisler (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-889-5.ch030

Keywords: Health Information Systems / Medical Information Science Reference / Medicine & Healthcare

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Clinical decision-making is a complex process that is reliant on accurate and timely information. Clinicians are dependent (or should be dependent) on massive amounts of information and knowledge to make decisions that are in the best interest of the patient. Increasingly, information technology (IT) solutions are being used as a knowledge transfer mechanism to ensure that clinicians have access to appropriate knowledge sources to support and facilitate medical decision making. One particular class of IT that the medical community is showing increased interest in is clinical decision support systems (CDSSs).

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