© 2002 Archives of Disease in Childhood
LEADING ARTICLE
Diagnosis
Paediatric clinical decision support systems
Imperial College School of Medicine, St Mary’s Hospital, Norfolk Place, London, UK
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Correspondence to:
Dr J Britto, Imperial College School of Medicine, St Mary’s Hospital, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, UK;
j.britto@ic.ac.uk
Dreams come true?
Keywords: internet; decision support; diagnostic tool; medical error
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A computerised clinical decision support system (CDSS) is "a computer based tool using explicit knowledge to generate patient specific advice or interpretation".1 Our use of computers has been driven not only by the increasing need to manage large amounts of information, but also by the imperative to make evidence based and cost effective decisions on a daily basis.2 Furthermore, there is accumulating evidence to prove that computer aided medical tools address the growing information needs of the busy clinician3 and improve healthcare processes as well as patient outcomes.4 In turn, this has led to the rapid proliferation of a variety of CDSS. This leading article summarises the past, present, and future of such systems, with special emphasis on their role in paediatrics.
The concept of computerised decision support for medicine is not new. As far back as 1959, a pioneering article in Science described how computers might assist in
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