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Implementing a clinical decision support system (CDSS) had little effect on reducing inappropriate imaging orders by doctors in university hospitals, according to a study published February 10 in JAMA. The finding is from a clinical trial involving 26 departments at three German academic medical centers that compared the proportions of inappropriate imaging requests between departments that used a CDSS with those that did not.
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