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Clinical Decision Support (CDS)

Computer-based clinical decision support (CDS) is defined as software that makes relevant information available for clinical decision making. CDS ranges from electronically available clinical data (e.g. information from a clinical laboratory system and information from a disease registry), to electronic full-text journal and textbook access, to evidence-based clinical guidelines, to systems that provide patient and situation specific advice (e.g., EKG interpretation, and drug-to-drug interaction checking). To read more, click here. Source: AHRQ