Pigott H E
Behav Healthc Tomorrow. 1995 Jan-Feb;4(1):59-61.
Expert decision-support soft-ware systems, when integrated with outcomes analyses, provide the opportunity to develop behavioral healthcare delivery systems in which providers are equipped to act decisively in a socially responsible manner. Key benefits of such systems include: enhancing the consistency and quality of clinical decision making across providers with varying professional backgrounds; providing a mechanism to ensure the rapid dissemination and implementation of new clinical research findings; performing severity-adjusted profiling of providers and programs based on the outcomes their services produce; and linking the prospective focus of clinical pathways with the retrospective rigor of outcomes analysis to accelerate advances in behavioral health. Integrating expert systems with outcomes analyses has the potential to rectify the historical failure by the behavioral healthcare professions to systematically link patient assessment data and their analysis to actual clinical decision making. Such systems will help make behavioral healthcare practice more accountable, thereby strengthening the argument for psychiatric patients to gain parity in healthcare benefits.
专家决策支持软件系统与结果分析相结合时，为开发行为医疗服务提供系统提供了机会，在该系统中，医疗服务提供者有能力以对社会负责的方式果断行动。此类系统的主要好处包括：提高不同专业背景的医疗服务提供者临床决策的一致性和质量；提供一种机制，以确保新的临床研究结果能够迅速传播和实施；根据服务产生的结果对医疗服务提供者和项目进行严重程度调整后的分析；将临床路径的前瞻性重点与结果分析的回顾性严谨性联系起来，以加速行为健康领域的进步。将专家系统与结果分析相结合，有可能纠正行为医疗行业在历史上未能将患者评估数据及其分析与实际临床决策系统地联系起来的问题。此类系统将有助于使行为医疗实践更具可问责性，从而加强精神科患者在医疗福利方面获得平等待遇的理由。
