出版社：International Association for Computer Information Systems
摘要：Sixty-six percent of Internet users in the United States in 2007 used a search engine to research health information to help themselves make health-related decisions. As a result physicians are increasingly compelled to defend their diagnoses and clarify the information their patients have found. The researchers propose the development of patient-oriented decision support systems by which laypersons can retrieve medical information. Through utilizing semi structured decision support systems that incorporate the latest standards in evidence-based medicine patients and care- givers can receive current, accurate and appropriate information. The exigencies of managed care have increased time pressures among most medical practices. Yet addressing concerns based on potentially misleading or harmful internet based information has garnered an increasing portion of practitioners’ time and mandates urgent attention.
关键词：patient-oriented decision support system;evidence-based medicine; informed decision
