Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

Learning objectives

Knowledge

• Can account for potential benefits and risks of using clinical decision support and decision support systems
• Can provide examples of applications of existing clinical decision support systems
• Can account for evidence in clinical decision support

Skills

• Can discuss requirements and prerequisites for knowledge and data in relation to decision support
• Can compare different methods for representing uncertainty and knowledge
• Can compare different methods for representing a decision
• Can choose and apply methods for evaluating decision support
• Can develop a heuristic rule-based decision support system
• Can develop a simple decision support system with representation of uncertainty and decision(s)
• Can develop a decision support system by combining a physiological model with a utility theory model of a clinical decision

Type of instruction

The module is taught, cf. §17 of the study programme

Exam

Exams