You are leading an effort to implement a clinical decision support system. In order to improve the patient specificity of your CDS rules, you would:
a. make sure that rules cannot be changed once they are implemented.
b. give the results of the rules directly to the patient.
c. store rules in a knowledge base and allow clinician experts to review and update the rules.
d. ensure that the rules were written in the most up-to-date programming language available.
ANS: C
In order to improve CDS rules, you would store rules in a knowledge base and allow clinician experts to review and update the rules. The other choices do not address patient specificity; allowing experts to update rules and make the rules immediately available to the CDS can improve patient specificity.
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