Developing and Testing the Usability of a Novel Child Abuse Clinical Decision Support System: Mixed Methods Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite the impact of physical abuse on children, it is often underdiagnosed, especially among children evaluated in general emergency departments (EDs) and those belonging to racial or ethnic minority groups. Electronic clinical decision support (CDS) can improve the recognition of child physical abuse.

Objective

We aimed to develop and test the usability of a natural language processing-based child abuse CDS system, known as the Child Abuse Clinical Decision Support (CA-CDS), to alert ED clinicians about high-risk injuries suggestive of abuse in infants' charts.

Methods

Informed by available evidence, a multidisciplinary team, including an expert in user design, developed the CA-CDS prototype that provided evidence-based recommendations for the evaluation

SUBMITTER: Thomas A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11015363 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature