Refining Clinical Phenotypes to Improve Clinical Decision Support and Reduce Alert Fatigue: A Feasibility Study.
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is common and associated with adverse clinical outcomes. Most care for early CKD is provided in primary care, including hypertension (HTN) management. Computerized clinical decision support (CDS) can improve the quality of care for CKD but can also cause alert fatigue for primary care physicians (PCPs). Computable phenotypes (CPs) are algorithms to identify disease populations using, for example, specific laboratory data criteria.
Author(s): Samal, Lipika, Wu, Edward, Aaron, Skye, Kilgallon, John L, Gannon, Michael, McCoy, Allison, Blecker, Saul, Dykes, Patricia C, Bates, David W, Lipsitz, Stuart, Wright, Adam
DOI: 10.1055/s-0043-1768994