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Table 3.

Effect of DSS on decision making, care delivery, and patient outcomes in studies that provided comparable baseline data (eg, 7 studies examined effects of DSS on care delivery reporting 11 different outcome measures demonstrating a positive effect in 8 measures)

	Number of studies	Total number of outcome measures reported	Positive effect of DSS	Negative effect of DSS	No significant effect of DSS
Decision making ¹⁸ ^, ^20–23 ^, ²⁵ ^, ²⁶ ^, ²⁸ ^, ³⁰ ^, ^32–34 ^, ³⁶ ^, ⁴⁰ ^, ⁴³ ^, ⁴⁵	16	22	18 (82)	0 (0)	4 (18)
Care delivery ²⁶ ^, ²⁸ ^, ³¹ ^, ³³ ^, ³⁷ ^, ³⁹ ^, ⁴²	7	11	8 (73)	1 (9)	2 (18)
Patient outcomes ¹⁹ ^, ²² ^, ²³ ^, ²⁵ ^, ³¹ ^, ³³ ^, ⁴¹ ^, ⁴² ^, ⁴⁴	9	12	6 (50)	1 (8)	5 (42)
Total		45	32 (71)	2 (7)	10 (22)

Values are n or n (%).

dSS: decision support system.