Measuring the Impact of Diagnostic Decision Support on the Quality of Clinical Decision Making: Development of a Reliable and Valid Composite Score
Author(s) -
Padmanabhan Ramnarayan,
Ritika R. Kapoor,
Michael Coren,
Vasantha Nanduri,
Amanda Tomlinson,
Paul Taylor,
Jeremy C Wyatt,
Joseph Britto
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
journal of the american medical informatics association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.614
H-Index - 150
eISSN - 1527-974X
pISSN - 1067-5027
DOI - 10.1197/jamia.m1338
Subject(s) - medical diagnosis , inter rater reliability , intraclass correlation , reliability (semiconductor) , medicine , decision support system , content validity , quality (philosophy) , quality management , medical physics , face validity , computer science , operations management , statistics , psychometrics , data mining , rating scale , clinical psychology , management system , pathology , mathematics , power (physics) , physics , philosophy , epistemology , quantum mechanics , economics
Few previous studies evaluating the benefits of diagnostic decision support systems have simultaneously measured changes in diagnostic quality and clinical management prompted by use of the system. This report describes a reliable and valid scoring technique to measure the quality of clinical decision plans in an acute medical setting, where diagnostic decision support tools might prove most useful.
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