Welcome to the clinical decision support part of the MSC course in Clinical information systems. This is just a small part of the course and should only take you approximately 20 hours to complete. It is a very limited introduction to this area, but does hopefully introduce you to the main topics. In terms of the course assessment The first resource has a number of MCQs associated with it, some of which may appear in the final online MCQ.

Introduction/commentary
Coiera 2003 Chapter 25 – Clinical decision support Systems available online at: http://www.coiera.com/aimd.htm

MCQs to the Coiera chapter link
Paul Taylor 2006 Chapter 10 - Probability and decision making link
Gerd Gigerenzer  2007 Chapter 9 – Less is More in Health Care link
Roger Penrose – 1993 Setting the Scene: the Claim and the Issues – Artificial minds link
MacNeil B J, Keeler E, Adelstein, 1975 Primer on certain elements of decision making Link