Clinical Decision making and Decision Analysis

Clinical Decision making and Decision Analysis
Presentation by: Dr. Dinesh P Mital

Hospital Based Decision Support
Medication prescribed

-Allergies -Physical examination

-Blood gases -Admit/discharge info.

-Electrocardiogram -X-ray findings

-Demographic information -Dietary information

-Cardiac data -Surgical procedures

-Biopsy results -Procedures reports

-Hematology -Respiratory notes

-Pulmonary functions -Microbiological data

-Nursing data -Pathology department data


Categories of Decision Support Technologies

1. Processes which respond to clinical data by issuing an alert.

2. Programs that respond to recorded decision to alter care by critiquing the decisions and proposing alternate care - as appropriate.

3. Applications that respond to a request by decision maker by suggesting a set of diagnosis of therapeutic maneuvers fitted to patient’s needs.

4. Retrospective quality assurance applications where clinical data are abstracted from patient’s records and decisions about the quality of care are made and fed back to care providers.


Alerting Systems

Manual approach.
Antibiotic Assistant and much more topics are discussed in this presentation


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