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ReviewJMIR medical informatics2018

Reasons For Physicians Not Adopting Clinical Decision Support Systems: Critical Analysis.

Saif Khairat, David Marc, William Crosby, Ali Al Sanousi

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Review in JMIR medical informatics, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 172 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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172citing papers in PubMed, 6 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

172 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  15. Factors Influencing Physician Adherence to Venous Thromboembolism Risk Assessment Model Recommendations: A Best-Worst Scaling.American journal of cardiovascular drugs : drugs, devices, and other interventions · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Saif KhairatCarolina Health Informatics Program, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-8992-2946
David MarcHealth Informatics Graduate Program, College of Saint Scholastica, Duluth, MN, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-6178-5345
William CrosbySchool of Nursing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-8531-2729
Ali Al SanousiHamad Medical Coperation, Doha, Qatar.ORCID 0000-0003-3822-3798

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundClinical decision support systems (CDSSs) are an integral component of today's health information technologies. They assist with interpretation, diagnosis, and treatment. A CDSS can be embedded throughout the patient safety continuum providing reminders, recommendations, and alerts to health care providers. Although CDSSs have been shown to reduce medical errors and improve patient outcomes, they have fallen short of their full potential. User acceptance has been identified as one of the potential reasons for this shortfall.

objectiveThe purpose of this paper was to conduct a critical review and task analysis of CDSS research and to develop a new framework for CDSS design in order to achieve user acceptance.

methodsA critical review of CDSS papers was conducted with a focus on user acceptance. To gain a greater understanding of the problems associated with CDSS acceptance, we conducted a task analysis to identify and describe the goals, user input, system output, knowledge requirements, and constraints from two different perspectives: the machine (ie, the CDSS engine) and the user (ie, the physician).

resultsFavorability of CDSSs was based on user acceptance of clinical guidelines, reminders, alerts, and diagnostic suggestions. We propose two models: (1) the user acceptance and system adaptation design model, which includes optimizing CDSS design based on user needs/expectations, and (2) the input-process-output-engagemodel, which reveals to users the processes that govern CDSS outputs.

conclusionsThis research demonstrates that the incorporation of the proposed models will improve user acceptance to support the beneficial effects of CDSSs adoption. Ultimately, if a user does not accept technology, this not only poses a threat to the use of the technology but can also pose a threat to the health and well-being of patients.

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attitude to computersdecision making, computer-assisteddecision support systems, clinical

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PMID29669706
PMCPMC5932331

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