Clinical Decision Support: Opportunity or Armageddon?

Abstract

<b>OBJECTIVE.</b> The objective of this article is to discuss clinical decision support (CDS) and the article by Palen and colleagues in this issue of <i>AJR</i>. <b>CONCLUSION.</b> The Palen et al. study provides strong evidence to date that CDS can lead to improvement in imaging appropriateness scores. However, the relevance of appropriateness scores in clinical practice is unknown and CDS is potentially highly disruptive to workflow, and therefore research into its true impact on clinical care is essential.