Table 1.

CDS design and development tasks

Phase	Description
Preparation	Assemble team and assign roles
Preparation	Confirm evidence base is current
Preparation	Review most recent version of the CP and supporting materials
Analysis	Extract recommendation statements from CP and assess recommendation statements for inclusion eligibility.
Analysis	Assess feasibility and barriers for conversion to L3 CDS artifact
Analysis	Assign clinical phase and target interventions to each statement
Design	Select CDS channel/intervention format for recommendation statements
Design	Create workflow based wireframes
Development	Parse recommendation statements and restructure content for encoding
Development	Meta-tagging and creation of standardized value sets
Development	Encode recommendation statements using CQL

Abbreviations: CDS, clinical decision support; CP, clinical pathway; CQL, clinical quality language.