Decision support systems

Decision support systems

• aimed at supporting the clinician in decision making
• these systems can take the place of clinician's in some areas
  Øpersonnel costs can be reduced
• BUT, with current knowledge about these systems
  Øsupport the care provider
• provide this support in 3 different ways:
  1.by providing formatting tools that help to organize, categorize and manipulate data;
  2.by allowing the manipulation of the data from the formatting tools based on weightings that help to determine priorities and likelihoods of outcomes
  3.by suggesting courses of action for a particular problem or issue
  oComponents of a decision support system includes:
  -a knowledge base; an inference engine; a patient database; and user friendly interfaces