Physicians' Perceptions of Clinical Decision Support to Treat Patients With Heart Failure in the ED.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Clinical decision support (CDS) could help emergency department (ED) physicians treat patients with heart failure (HF) by estimating risk, collating relevant history, and assisting with medication prescribing if physicians' perspectives inform its design and implementation.

Objective

To evaluate CDS usability and workflow integration in the hands of ED physician end users who use it in clinical practice.

Design, setting, and participants

This mixed-methods qualitative study administered semistructured interviews to ED physicians from 2 community EDs of Kaiser Permanente Northern California in 2023. The interview guide, based on the Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design and the Sociotechnical Environment models, yielded themes used to construct an e

SUBMITTER: Casey SD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10663967 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature