Coding Systems for Clinical Decision Support: Theoretical and Real-World Comparative Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Effective clinical decision support systems require accurate translation of practice recommendations into machine-readable artifacts; developing code sets that represent clinical concepts are an important step in this process. Many clinical coding systems are currently used in electronic health records, and it is unclear whether all of these systems are capable of efficiently representing the clinical concepts required in executing clinical decision support systems.

Objective

The aim of this study was to evaluate which clinical coding systems are capable of efficiently representing clinical concepts that are necessary for translating artifacts into executable code for clinical decision support systems.

Methods

Two methods were used to evaluate a set of clin

SUBMITTER: Delvaux N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7641774 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature