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Medical Informatics and Pediatrics

1995; American Medical Association; Volume: 149; Issue: 12 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1001/archpedi.1995.02170250077014

1538-3628

Kevin B. Johnson, M J Feldman,

Medical Coding and Health Information

Decision support is an important area of medical informatics research. Computer-based decision-support tools facilitate diagnosis and the management of patients after a diagnosis has been established. Diagnostic decision-support tools, such as Meditel, Quick Medical Reference, DXplain, Iliad, and PEM-DXP are potentially useful "expert systems." Other management-support tools, such as systems that use clinical practice guidelines to create reminders and alerts, also have been developed and evaluated. We do the following: (1) provide an overview of diagnostic and management decision-support systems; (2) explore the background of and motivation behind these systems; (3) survey the uses of decision-support technology in office-based and inpatient pediatric practices; and (4) discuss the virtues and problems associated with some of these tools, and current controversies and future goals for computer-based decision support. Editor's Note: This is another article in our series on medical informatics and computers. We hope you find it and other such articles useful.