Clinical Decision Support and Evidence-Based Medicine

Catalog description

Focuses on the major problems of human decision making in health care including causes of errors, decreased quality and increased costs. Explores the role of information technology, primarily through computer-based clinical decision support (CDS), to address these problems. Explores key methods used to provide CDS, the capabilities and limitations of current approaches and the challenges for managing and updating the knowledge needed to deliver CDS in an enterprise setting. Origins of evidence-based decision making and policy formulation; how to use the tools and approaches that have been developed to support evidence-based decision making and policy formulation; and the history and evolution of systematic review and meta-analysis as a tool to inform decisions and policies based on evidence. Students gain hands-on experience by conducting a systematic review and a meta-analysis and using the results to draw conclusions and formulate health policy.