Falls risk assessments: Too much, too little or just right?

Clinical decision support systems (CDSS) hold great promise in improving nursing care and patient outcomes by providing electronic assistance to clinicians in the form of reminders, evidence based practice guidelines and standard order sets among other things. However, research on patient outcomes as a result of CDSS generally find that while provider behavior changes for the better, patient outcomes are not generally improved (Prgomet, Li, Niazkhani, Georgiou,& Westbrook, 2017) or are only minimally impacted (Jaspers, Smeulers, Vermeulen,& Peute, 2011; Jia, Zhang, Chen, Zhao,& Zhang, 2016).

Source: Applied Nursing Research : ANR - June 19, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Grace Su Tags: Editorial Source Type: research