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Clinical Decision Support for Pediatric Diarrhea—Expectations and Evidence in Diagnostic Stewardship

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: In a qualitative analysis of individual in-depth interviews, Jones and colleagues 1 explored the motivators for parents and guardians to seek care for a child with diarrhea, their expectations, and their perceived utility of clinical decision support tools (CDSTs).The authors elicited 3 major themes motivating parents to seek care for a child with diarrhea: reassurance, illness etiology, and treatment.Interviews with clinicians revealed a desire to meet parental expectations that was often at odds with the perceived limited utility of diagnostic tests for pediatric diarrhea.When asked about a proposed CDST to determine when a diagnostic test was warranted, CDSTs were generally accepted by the clinicians and were met with some skepticism by parents.The authors concluded that a CDST could improve evidence-based testing and confidence in communicating with parents but that parents did not want their child's care to be based solely on the output from an algorithm.CDSTs are important features in diagnostic stewardship, which strives to change the ordering,

Source: JAMA Network Open

DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.31006

Author: KC Coffey

Institution: University of Maryland, Baltimore

Language: English

Topic: Electronic Health Records Systems

Subfield: Health Information Management

Field: Health Professions

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $3,000