CDSiC Resources

CDSiC Measurement and Outcomes Workgroup Charter - Option Year 1

Publication Date:

November 30, 2023

The Measurement and Outcomes Workgroup Option Year 1 Charter is a document that describes the purpose, goals, and key activities of the Workgroup under the CDSiC Stakeholder Community and Outreach Center.

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.

Scaling, Measurement, and Dissemination of CDS Workgroup: PC CDS Performance Measurement Inventory

Publication Date:

August 1, 2023

This inventory identifies available measures and metrics to assess patient-centered clinical decision support (PC CDS) performance.Developed by the AHRQ CDSiC Scaling, Measurement, and Dissemination of CDS Workgroup, this inventory can be used by implementation teams with the accompanying resource, the Scaling, Measurement, and Dissemination of CDS Workgroup: PC CDS Performance Measurement Inventory User Guide.

Scaling, Measurement, and Dissemination of CDS Workgroup: PC CDS Performance Measurement Inventory User Guide

Publication Date:

August 1, 2023

This user guide identifies available measures to assess patient-centered clinical decision support (PC CDS).

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.

CDSiC Innovation Center Quarterly Report, April to July 2023

Publication Date:

August 1, 2023

This quarterly report provides updates on the progress of Innovation Center activities from April to July 2023. During this period, the Innovation Center focused on finalizing deliverables for three projects that work to address gaps in measuring and monitoring patient-centered clinical decision support (PC CDS) performance.

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.

A Lifecycle Framework Illustrates Eight Stages Necessary for Realizing the Benefits of Patient-Centered Clinical Decision Support

Publication Date:

July 6, 2023

This article, published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA), discusses a comprehensive patient-centered clinical decision support (PC CDS) lifecycle framework developed and vetted by members of the CDSiC team. The framework describes the work that must be completed and data that must be collected, analyzed, or transmitted for healthcare stakeholders to implement and benefit from PC CDS, as well as identifies opportunities for patient and/or caregiver participation at each stage of the process.