Journal article
Clinical decision support systems in community pharmacies: a scoping review
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA, Vol.31(1), pp.231-239
12/22/2023
DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocad208
PMCID: PMC10746304
PMID: 37875066
Abstract
Clinical decision support systems (CDSS) were implemented in community pharmacies over 40 years ago. However, unlike CDSS studies in other health settings, few studies have been undertaken to evaluate and improve their use in community pharmacies, where billions of prescriptions are filled every year. The aim of this scoping review is to summarize what research has been done surrounding CDSS in community pharmacies and call for rigorous research in this area.
Six databases were searched using a combination of controlled vocabulary and keywords relating to community pharmacy and CDSS. After deduplicating the initial search results, 2 independent reviewers conducted title/abstract screening and full-text review. Then, the selected studies were synthesized in terms of investigational/clinical focuses.
The selected 21 studies investigated the perception of and response to CDSS alerts (n = 7), the impact of CDSS alerts (n = 7), and drug-drug interaction (DDI) alerts (n = 8). Three causes of the failures to prevent DDIs of clinical importance have been noted: the perception of and response to a high volume of DDI alerts, a suboptimal performance of CDSS, and a dearth of sociotechnical considerations for managing workload and workflow. Additionally, 7 studies emphasized the importance of utilizing CDSS for a specific clinical focus, ie, antibiotics, diabetes, opioids, and vaccinations.
Despite the range of topics dealt in the last 30 years, this scoping review confirms that research on CDSS in community pharmacies is limited and disjointed, lacking a comprehensive approach to highlight areas for improvement and ways to optimize CDSS utilization.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Clinical decision support systems in community pharmacies: a scoping review
- Creators
- Jukrin Moon - University of Wisconsin–MadisonJason S Chladek - University of Wisconsin–MadisonPaije Wilson - University of Wisconsin–MadisonMichelle A Chui - University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA, Vol.31(1), pp.231-239
- DOI
- 10.1093/jamia/ocad208
- PMID
- 37875066
- PMCID
- PMC10746304
- NLM abbreviation
- J Am Med Inform Assoc
- ISSN
- 1067-5027
- eISSN
- 1527-974X
- Grant note
- TL1 TR002375 / NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR002373 / NCATS NIH HHS
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/22/2023
- Academic Unit
- Industrial and Systems Engineering
- Record Identifier
- 9984806501302771
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