CDSiC Resources

CDSiC 2022 Project Summary

Publication Date:

October 31, 2023

This CDSiC 2022 Project Summary highlights the CDSiC’s goals and desired outcomes and describes the work of the CDSiC’s three centers.

CDSiC Base Period of Performance Report

Publication Date:

October 1, 2023

In this report, the CDSiC presents an overview of the activities, outputs, and outcomes of the first two years of the CDSiC and summarizes lessons learned. The intended audiences for this report are clinicians, CDS researchers, CDS content developers, electronic health record (EHR) developers, app developers, device and wearable manufacturers, health information technology (IT) standards developers, policymakers, patients/caregivers, and payers.

Trust and Patient-Centeredness Workgroup: An Introductory Handbook for Patient Engagement Throughout the Patient-Centered Clinical Decision Support Lifecycle

Publication Date:

September 1, 2023

This handbook provides guidance and resources for patient engagement in patient-centered clinical decision support.Developed by the AHRQ CDSiC Trust and Patient-Centeredness Workgroup, this handbook provides guidance on the best methods to engage patients in the development of patient-centered clinical decision support tools.

Outcomes and Objectives Workgroup: Integration of Patient-Centered Clinical Decision Support Into Shared Decision Making

Publication Date:

September 1, 2023

This report provides a framework for the use of patient-centered clinical decision support to facilitate shared decision making.Developed by the AHRQ CDSiC Outcomes and Objectives Workgroup, this report provides a framework demonstrating the potential for patient-centered clinical decision support to facilitate shared decision making.

Standards and Regulatory Frameworks Workgroup: Advancing Standardized Representations for Patient Preferences to Support Patient-Centered Clinical Decision Support

Publication Date:

August 1, 2023

This report describes standards for patient-preferences data.Developed by the AHRQ CDSiC Standards and Regulatory Frameworks Workgroup, this report examines data standards currently available for collecting and using patient-preference data to guide patient-centered clinical decision support (PC CDS) and includes recommendations to further the integration of patient-preference data into PC CDS tools.

Trust and Patient-Centeredness Workgroup: Methods for Involving End Users in PC CDS Codesign

Publication Date:

August 1, 2023

This resource paves the way for end users' involvement in codesign of patient-centered clinical decision support.Developed by the AHRQ CDSiC Trust and Patient-Centeredness Workgroup, this resource focuses on codesign involving end users and other stakeholders as partners in developing, refining, and testing patient- and clinician-facing patient-centered clinical decision support.

Scaling, Measurement, and Dissemination of CDS Workgroup: PC CDS Planning, Implementation, and Reporting Checklist

Publication Date:

August 1, 2023

This fillable checklist enables users to describe details of how each implementation domain was (or will be) addressed within their patient-centered clinical decision support (PC CDS) approach.Developed by the AHRQ CDSiC Scaling, Measurement, and Dissemination of CDS Workgroup, this checklist can be used by implementation teams with the accompanying resource, the Scaling, Measurement, and Dissemination of CDS Workgroup: PC CDS Planning, Implementation, and Reporting User Guide.

Scaling, Measurement, and Dissemination of CDS Workgroup: PC CDS Planning, Implementation, and Reporting User Guide

Publication Date:

August 1, 2023

This user guide provides details on capturing patient-centered clinical decision support implementation features.Developed by the AHRQ CDSiC Scaling, Measurement, and Dissemination of CDS Workgroup, this user guide provides a unified resource for planning and reporting PC CDS implementations. The user guide is accompanied by the fillable PC CDS Planning, Implementation, and Reporting Checklist.

Standards and Regulatory Frameworks Workgroup: Improving Interoperability of Patient Apps with the Health IT Ecosystem

Publication Date:

August 1, 2023

This report identifies opportunities for improving patient app interoperability to advance patient-centered clinical decision support.Developed by the AHRQ CDSiC Standards and Regulatory Frameworks Workgroup, this report identifies several opportunities for further advancement of patient-centered clinical decision support (PC CDS) standards to support the interoperability between patient apps and electronic health records (EHRs) and other health information technology (IT) systems.

Lessons Learned from a National Initiative Promoting Publicly Available Standards-Based Clinical Decision Support

Publication Date:

July 26, 2023

This article, published in Applied Clinical Informatics, describes lessons learned from an evaluation of AHRQ’s Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR) Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Initiative. The evaluation yielded several important lessons for developing and implementing publicly available, standards-based CDS, and identified addressing persistent challenges to broad dissemination and implementation as priority areas for future work in the field.