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Could Liability Concerns Derail Clinical Decision Support?
M. Susan Ridgely, Michael D. Greenberg
Jul 6, 2012
Computerized clinical decision support (CDS) systems have been developed to enhance physician decisionmaking and reduce the incidence of avoidable medical errors. Drug-drug interaction warnings are a mainstay of CDS systems, but they give rise to a fundamental problem that limits the utility of the systems to date.
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Patient Safety
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Clinical Decision Support and Malpractice Risk
Michael D. Greenberg, M. Susan Ridgely
Jul 6, 2011
The Journal of the American Medical Association
From the standpoint of policy makers, the basic challenge is to ensure that liability concerns do not derail the clinical value of new CDS technology, write Michael Greenberg and M. Susan Ridgely.
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