Clinical Decision Support
Chapter 12 Bedside Questions · 9 questions · about 9 minutes
CDS as the hospital’s reflexes, a knee jerk that must be calibrated; and alerts as the boy who cried wolf until the listener stopped listening.
Clinical decision support, operationally: whether your alerts and order guidance are owned, measured, aimed at the dangerous orders, and retired when they stop working. Answer Yes only when someone can produce the evidence today.
Answer as your executive team would, with the evidence in hand. Each question has a factual answer in a system you already own.
What is your alert override rate, by alert and in aggregate; who reports it and who is accountable?
Add a note: where is the evidence, or who owns it?
Sorted by consequence, what fraction of alert volume fires on orders that could seriously harm vs. could not?
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What is missing is a chartered committee, and a Diagnostician with the authority to turn things off.
The Diagnostician, Chapter 12