Nudging Health Care Providers' Adoption of Clinical Decision Support: Protocol for the User-Centered Development of a Behavioral Economics-Inspired Electronic Health Record Tool.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The improvements in care resulting from clinical decision support (CDS) have been significantly limited by consistently low health care provider adoption. Health care provider attitudes toward CDS, specifically psychological and behavioral barriers, are not typically addressed during any stage of CDS development, although they represent an important barrier to adoption. Emerging evidence has shown the surprising power of using insights from the field of behavioral economics to address psychological and behavioral barriers. Nudges are formal applications of behavioral economics, defined as positive reinforcement and indirect suggestions that have a nonforced effect on decision-making.

Objective

Our goal is to employ a user-centered design process to develop a CDS t

SUBMITTER: Richardson S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9892982 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature