EHR Intelligence January 21, 2021
Although clinical decision support (CDS) tools have the potential to mitigate prescription rates, especially for high-risk prescribing, there is room for growth.
Clinical decision support (CDS) tools in EHRs have the potential to reduce high-risk prescribing for older adults, yet the results have not lived up to that potential, according to a study published in Implementation Science.
Furthermore, EHR tools have proven to have limited effectiveness at boosting prescribing methods.
Prescribing high-risk medications to older adults can have deadly consequences and unfortunately, it is far too common. Reducing these efforts has had limited success and EHR-based tools, such as CDS tools, aim to fix this issue. However, these tools have had limited adoption rates for prescribing high-risk medicine to older...
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