Clinical Decision Support Systems: An Innovative Approach to Enhancing Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services

In the “good old days,” Hippocrates narrowed the basic understanding of disease and clinical practice to four “humors”: blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. Today, medical practice takes place in a rapidly expanding realm of an ever-changing knowledge base that makes it difficult to include a ll evidence-based information about etiology, epidemiology, phenomenology, assessment, prevention, treatment, and more, in day-to-day patient care. This is made more challenging by the complexity and growing interest in “personalized medicine” and “precision medicine.” While some clinicians read widely and have prodigious memories, few of us are able to apply all available, pertinent knowledge to our patients’ care.

Source: Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - October 14, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Carolyn E. Clausen, Bennett L. Leventhal, Øystein Nytrø, Roman Koposov, Odd Sverre Westbye, Thomas Brox Røst, Victoria Bakken, Kaban Koochakpour, Ketil Thorvik, Norbert Skokauskas Tags: Translations Source Type: research