TY - GEN
T1 - A vision for enhancing multimorbid care using clinical decision support systems
AU - Grace, Audrey
AU - Mahony, Carolanne
AU - O'donoghue, John
AU - Heffernan, Tony
AU - Molony, David
AU - Carroll, Thomas
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - There has been a substantial increase in Multimorbidity, worldwide. Extensive empirical research has found that General Practitioners (GPs) often feel overwhelmed when dealing with such patients [1]. While clinical decision support systems (CDSS) are effective at reducing clinical decision errors and improving healthcare processes across diverse settings [2], the use of CDSS within multimorbidity care is under investigated. This study employs a multi-method approach to examine how well CDSS currently support Irish GPs when dealing with multimorbid patients. The findings uncover a number of inadequacies, including: a lack of provision of integrated medical guidelines for multiple chronic diseases within current CDSS; and an inability to centralise the patient rather than the disease using such systems. This research underlines the need for further research into CDSS for multimorbidity and highlights key issues that must be addressed in order to improve how CDSS support the care of multimorbid patients.
AB - There has been a substantial increase in Multimorbidity, worldwide. Extensive empirical research has found that General Practitioners (GPs) often feel overwhelmed when dealing with such patients [1]. While clinical decision support systems (CDSS) are effective at reducing clinical decision errors and improving healthcare processes across diverse settings [2], the use of CDSS within multimorbidity care is under investigated. This study employs a multi-method approach to examine how well CDSS currently support Irish GPs when dealing with multimorbid patients. The findings uncover a number of inadequacies, including: a lack of provision of integrated medical guidelines for multiple chronic diseases within current CDSS; and an inability to centralise the patient rather than the disease using such systems. This research underlines the need for further research into CDSS for multimorbidity and highlights key issues that must be addressed in order to improve how CDSS support the care of multimorbid patients.
KW - Chronic Disease
KW - Clinical Decision Support Systems
KW - Computer-Assisted Decision Making
KW - Multimorbidity
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84894360400&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3233/978-1-61499-289-9-1117
DO - 10.3233/978-1-61499-289-9-1117
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 23920891
AN - SCOPUS:84894360400
SN - 9781614992882
T3 - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
SP - 1117
BT - MEDINFO 2013 - Proceedings of the 14th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics
PB - IOS Press
T2 - 14th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics, MEDINFO 2013
Y2 - 20 August 2013 through 23 August 2013
ER -