Familiarity with DDSS will also predispose to greater adoption of computerized aids during future clinical decision making.
In other words, they would not want to rely on their own judgment, even if assisted by a brochure or a computerized aid, to come to treatment decisions.
Rather, they saw the utility of the computerized aid as educational and preparatory for their discussions with a doctor which would lead to final decisions about treatment choices through a shared decision making process.
This task is increasingly aided by computerized systems that do things like print visitor badges with bar codes that put time limits on visits and restrict areas that can be visited.
Other studies have investigated the association of hepatic fibrosis and clinical course after portoenterostomy, with poor outcome reported for children with advanced fibrosis, either quantified by standard methods or aided by computerized morphometry [ 18- 21].
Decision aids often restrict the way a user interacts with a decision aid by the rules embedded within computerized decision aids.
Many law enforcement agencies now use computerized systems to aid them in such investigations; the FBI's Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (ViCAP), for example, is a database that contains information on violent crimes committed across the United States.
Intussusception, omental infarction, mesenteric adenitis, epiploic appendagitis, lymphoma, and adenocarcinoma may all present with right lower quadrant pain; therefore, advanced imaging modalities such as ultrasonography and computerized tomography can aid in definitive diagnosis.
Notwithstanding these challenges, the documented benefit of the application of decision-support tools in the ICU and the rapid expansion of electronic ICU databases promise an increasingly favorable environment for the development, implementation, and use of computerized protocols to aid clinical decision-makers in the ICU.
