Hi,
need 2-3 paragraph. choose from option A or B and please address all asked questions:
Answer with an initial post to one of the questions sets below. Make sure you note in your post if you are responding to Option A or Option B. You must respond to classmates postings in both Option A and Option B.
Option A: Clinical Decision Support Systems
Clinical decision support systems (CDSS) are used to help guide clinical decisions for care. At the high end, CDSSs can facilitate diagnosis of conditions. Most of us see a CDSS in terms of hard stops in the charting where until certain things are documented you cannot proceed in the charting.
Option B: Data Mining
Data mining is used to find relationships between variables that one might not have considered previously. For example, you run a data search to compare the incidence of nosocomial infections rates on a particular unit against those that had surgery a minimum of one day prior. This might show a correlation between infection rates of a particular group (say, appendectomies) with a specific OR (or surgeon, or team, etc.). Perhaps the nosocomial infection rates of appendectomies was 24% when they used operating room 3. The data tells you to examine that OR, look for reasons why the incidence of infections was higher in that room. Data mining looks retrospectively at the correlation between two variables that might not have been identified otherwise.
In your responses to two other students posts, discuss the impact data mining or CDSS might have on clinical practice or share another response that you may have about a students posting.
Your responses should consist of complete sentences and should be at least 1 paragraph but no more than 3 paragraphs.