This book explores how design of clinical decision support systems (DSS) is driven by the optimisation of the decision process leading to the decision, and how it may enhance the human uptake and use of DSS. Author explains how to identify tasks that could be simplified by decision support, and how to build DSS that are likely to be readily adopted and so improve decision outcomes. Two hypotheses are tested: (a) the analysis of specific process attributes of a given clinical decision task, as well... Mehr