Evaluation of rule effectiveness and positive predictive value of clinical rules in a Dutch clinical decision support system in daily hospital pharmacy practice

Conclusion: ADEAS can effectively be used in daily hospital pharmacy practice to select patients at risk of potential ADEs, but to increase the benefits for routine patient care and to increase efficiency, both rule effectiveness and PPV for the clinical rules should be improved. Furthermore, clinical rules would have to be refined and restricted to those categories that are potentially most promising for clinical relevance, i.e. “clinical rules with a combination of pharmacy and laboratory data” and “clinical rules based upon the basic CPOE medication safety alerts fine-tuned to high risk patients”.
Source: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine - Category: Bioinformatics Authors: Tags: Special Issue Articles Source Type: research