Towards a Generic Description Schema for Clinical Decision Support Systems

Abstract

Many clinical decision support systems (CDSS) have shown good performance in the research context, but only a few have been brought into routine care. Analysis of success or failure factors in the design of CDSS may support translation from development to routine care by guiding CDSS design and development along these factors. In this work, we propose a schema to describe CDSS designs in a consistent way. We focus on design criteria with the aim to investigate the observed translation gap in CDSS. Existing description models on different aspects relevant for CDSS are combined to a comprehensive schema that allows description and comparison of CDSS without limitation to the domain or architecture.