Effective clinical decision-making from Practice-Based Evidence

This is an ongoing research investigating the use of health information technologies (HIT) to improve clinical decisionmaking processes. Effective and timely clinical decision-making can lead to positive improvements in patient´s health outcome. The primary hypothesis of this research is that a Practice-Based Evidence (PBE) approach by utilisation of Electronic Health Records (EHR), improves clinical decision-making capabilities of healthcare professionals. This study therefore looks to answer the following research questions. (I) What is the current practice by healthcare professionals when making clinical decisions? (2) What limits the ability to make well-informed clinical decisions? and (3) How EHR and PBE assisting improvements to the clinical decision-making capabilities?