1.3 CDS 5 Rights Definition

Description: You will be introduced to the “CDS Five Rights” in this module.

Action Steps:

• CDS May Not Be What You Think It Is (below)
  • Review the “5 Rights” of Clinical Decision Support
  • Review the Most Common Types of Clinical Decision Support Interventions Examples
• Why So Important (Placeholder - to be uploaded later)

CDS May Not Be What You Think It Is

5 Rights of CDS

To improve targeted healthcare decisions and outcomes, well developed and deployed CDS interventions must provide:

• the right information (evidence-based, actionable…) [what]
• to the right people (clinicians and patients…) [who]
• in the right intervention types (answers, documentation tools, data display, alerts…) [how]
• through the right channels (EHR, internet, smartphones, smart pill bottles…) [where]
• at the right points in workflow (decision/action ...) [when]

CDS Intervention Types

There is a rich portfolio of CDS intervention types, that is, options for the 'how' dimension of the CDS 5 Rights. Different authors describe these in different ways. Some examples include:

• Relevant data presentation
  • Patient Lists/Provider Scorecards
  • Flow sheets and Graphs
  • Dashboards
• Documentation Templates
• Order sets
• Reference information
  • Ideally tightly linked to workflow
• Alerts and reminders

For additional examples, please view the presentation found here.

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