Comorbidities and clinical decision support: Report of a virtual workshop led by junior doctors

Oluseyi Adesalu; Oliver Curwen; Yathu Maheswaran; Jonathan Mok; Mayowa Osinibi; Rose Penfold; Chandu Wickramarachch; Kieran Walsh

doi:10.4103/ehp.ehp_33_20

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Year : 2021 \| Volume : 4 \| Issue : 1 \| Page : 26-29

Comorbidities and clinical decision support: Report of a virtual workshop led by junior doctors Oluseyi Adesalu¹, Oliver Curwen², Yathu Maheswaran³, Jonathan Mok⁴, Mayowa Osinibi⁵, Rose Penfold⁶, Chandu Wickramarachch⁷, Kieran Walsh⁸ ¹ Professional Support Unit, Health Education England London and KSS; Research Department of Medical Education, University College London, London, UK ² Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, Frimley Health NHS Trust, Frimley, UK ³ Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK ⁴ Foundation Programme, University Hospitals Bristol and Weston, Bristol, UK ⁵ Department of Emergency, Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust, Salisbury, UK ⁶ King's College London, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK ⁷ Department of Emergency, Barking Havering and Redbridge NHS Trust, London, UK ⁸ Clinical Director, BMJ Knowledge Centre, BMJ, London, UK Correspondence Address: Dr. Kieran Walsh BMA House, Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9JR UK Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None DOI: 10.4103/ehp.ehp_33_20

Clinical decision support tools should have a role in the management of patients with comorbidities. But until now, these tools have offered minimal support for managing such patients. BMJ Best Practice has recently launched a new resource – the comorbidities tool from BMJ Best Practice. This article describes and contextualizes the themes discussed at a workshop with junior doctors on clinical decision support for health-care professionals on comorbidities. Comorbidities were vitally important to the clinical practice of all the doctors in the workshop, but most perceived a lack of specific teaching and support on the subject of comorbidities. Most of the doctors found it a challenge to manage patients with comorbidities and were enthusiastic about a tool that would help them overcome these challenges and improve their clinical decision-making. We found that a workshop led by junior doctors provided deep insights into the issue of clinical decision support for patients with comorbidities.



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