Computerized clinical decision support for prescribing: provision does not guarantee uptake

Introduction

Clinical Decision Support (CDSS) have the potential to enhance clinical decisions with the principal goal of providing high quality healthcare that can enhance patients’ outcomes. Resources used by healthcare professionals should always be knowledge-based in order to offer transformational health care services. Although CDSS has demonstrated to enhance the quality of patient care by linking healthcare professionals with high quality evidence medicine it generates concern to learn that even when a CDSS is readily available within a healthcare setting clinicians often fail to adopt its recommendations.