Barriers and facilitators to the uptake of computerized clinical decision support systems in specialty hospitals: protocol for a qualitative cross-sectional study

Background

Clinical decision support systems (CDS) have been shown to be a tool that can improve the quality of medical services by providing to physicians evidence-based information at the point-of-care. However, we have learned that the mere provision of CDS does no guarantee their uptake.

Introduction

The majority of studies exploring health professionals' perceptions of CDS tend to focus on technical and usability issues ignoring other potential factors that may also make a difference in the uptake of CDS such as social and cultural variables.

Conclusion

Evaluating different health professionals from multiple hospital settings in different stages of CDSS adoption will better capture the complexity of roles as well as social and cultural factors affecting CDSS implementation