Clinical decision support (CDS)
pain
Providers in the CDS arm were given access to the CDS at the point-of-care through the EHR, which was accessible to providers who were seeing patients for a dental extraction, with a highlighted link in the EHR when a patient had a treatment plan involving an extraction. The CDS content was developed by the research team and content experts to provide guidance on pain management recommendations for dental extractions. Prior to deploying the CDS, the study team conducted observations of 15 dental extractions at HealthPartners to determine provider workflow related to analgesic decision-making, including review of the EHR and discussions with the patient, in order to optimize the placement and timing of the CDS within the EHR. The CDS was personalized for the patient to display potential medication interactions with commonly recommended analgesics as identified in Micromedex [