Eastern Florida NUR3164 Unit 2 Discussion Part 2 Latest 2019 March

NUR3164 Introduction to Nursing Research and Health Informatics

Unit 2 Discussion 9-11

The drive to quantify how CDS can help maximize desired healthcare outcomes. The “10 Commandments” of the CDS best practices and the “CDS Five Rights” are both guide for best practice.

“10 Commandments” of CDS best practices

Speed is everything.

Anticipate needs and deliver in real time.

Fit into the user’s workflow.

Little things can make a big difference.

Recognize that physicians will strongly resist stopping.

Changing direction is easier than stopping.

Simple interventions work best.

Ask for additional information only when you really need it.

Monitor impact, get feedback, and respond.

Manage and maintain your knowledge-based systems.

“CDS Five Rights” is referring to providing the right information to the right person using the right CDS intervention format, delivered through the right channel and at the right point in the workflow. (pg. 178 of your textbook).

Taking these into consideration, answer the following questions;

How do patient safety, quality of care, and economic interests contribute to the need to identify CDS best practices and to quantify effective CDS practice?

What do the authors mean when they talk about the drive “to make CDS more of a science than an art”?

How can this drive help in the effort to replicate and disseminate successful CDS systems?

Considering that it is important to recognize the limits and potential drawbacks of certain elements of CDS.

Discuss the problem of “alert fatigue” and how this must be a consideration in any effective CDS system.

Discuss how CDS can alleviate the problem of information overload by highlighting relevant