Patient-specific evidence-based care recommendations for diabetes mellitus: development and initial clinic experience with a computerized decision support system

BACKGROUND: adherence with evidence-based recommendations for chronic disease management is often suboptimal. Providing patient-specific reminders at the time of clinical encounters has the potential to improve this situation. A necessary prerequisite for providing such reminders, however, is to have an efficient means of acquiring patient information that can be matched to an underlying knowledge base. The decision support system: we have …