September 23, 2016 
Improving clinical practice using clinical decision support systems: a systematic review of trials to identify features critical to success
Kawamoto K, Houlihan CA, Balas EA, et al. Improving clinical practice using clinical decision support systems: a systematic review of trials to identify features critical to success. BMJ. 2005:330:765.
Key findings
This systematic review examined the ability of decision support systems to improve clinical practice and sought the presence of 15 decision support system features whose usefulness had been suggested in the literature. Decision support was found to have improved clinical practice in about two-thirds of the 70 included trials.