Better Decisions. Better Health for Kids.
Advancing pediatric clinical decision support
through multi-institutional collaboration.
Who We Are
The Pediatric Clinical Decision Support Collaborative (PCC) brings together clinicians, informaticians, researchers, and healthcare organizations to advance pediatric clinical decision support through collaborative research, implementation, and evaluation.
Members
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Research
Explore publications, presentations, and implementation studies.
Funded Projects
Learn about grants supporting pediatric clinical decision support research.
Latest Research
Recent publications and presentations from collaborative members.
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Alert Design in the Real World: A cross-sectional analysis of interruptive alerting at nine academic pediatric health systems
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
Our study provides the first multi-center analysis of EHR alert design elements in pediatric care settings, revealing substantial variation in content and design. These findings underline the need for future research to experimentally explore EHR alert design best practices to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
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Pediatric Predictive Artificial Intelligence Implemented in Clinical Practice from 2010-2021: A Systematic Review
Applied Clinical Informatics
While there are many published pediatric AI models, the number of AI implementations is minimal with no standardized reporting of outcomes, care processes, or human performance measures. More comprehensive evaluations will help elucidate mechanisms of impact.
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CDS RoundUp: Exterminating Roaches in Clinical Decision Support
This panel highlights some of the Pediatric CDS Collaborative’s most ignominious CDS roaches – hard to kill tools that far outlived their utility – to share hard earned lessons and successes organized as roach facts
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Catastrophic Disaster Stories: Tales of CDS Gone Wrong and Lessons Learned
In this panel, we describe some of our most inglorious misfires as case vignettes in clinical decision support (CDS) implementation to share hard-earned lessons organized into 8 sociotechnical dimensions.
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Clinical Decision Support Stewardship: Best Practices and Techniques to Monitor and Improve Interruptive Alerts
Applied Clinical Informatics
Further refinement of alert burden metrics is needed as current metrics do not adequately represent the impact on end users when viewed through different dimensions. The best practices we describe here will allow institutions to establish monitoring and optimization programs to reduce alert burden.
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Alert burden in pediatric hospitals: a cross-sectional analysis of six academic pediatric health systems using novel metrics
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
Estimates of the clinical areas with highest alert burden varied substantially by institution and based on the metric used.
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Pediatric Clinical Decision Support Collaborative: Benchmarking Across Institutions to Measure and Manage Alert Burden
We discuss benefits and challenges in developing a pediatric learning collaborative for clinical decision support benchmarking and sharing of best practices, describe the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to alert burden measurement, demonstrate how alert prioritization can inform quality improvement initiatives to reduce alert burden, examine unique measurement challenges for non-EHR alerts such as phone calls and text messages, and discuss strategies for linking alert burden analytics to governance strategies that facilitate improvement.
