A survey of factors affecting clinician acceptance of clinical decision support.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Real-time clinical decision support (CDS) integrated into clinicians' workflow has the potential to profoundly affect the cost, quality, and safety of health care delivery. Recent reports have identified a surprisingly low acceptance rate for different types of CDS. We hypothesized that factors affecting CDS system acceptance could be categorized as relating to differences in patients, physicians, CDS-type, or environmental characteristics.

Methods

We conducted a survey of all adult primary care physicians (PCPs, n = 225) within our group model Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) to identify factors that affect their acceptance of CDS. We defined clinical decision support broadly as "clinical information" that is either provided to you or accessible by you, from

SUBMITTER: Sittig DF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1403751 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature