Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Artifact Design Assignment

The Agency for Health Research and Quality (AHRQ) has created a Clinical Decision Support Authoring Tool. This Authoring tool is a systematic and replicable process for transforming patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) findings into shareable standards-based CDS artifacts. The following document describes an assignment that gives students a hands-on exercise opportunity to design clinical design support artifacts.


Click here to read the report, assignment description and cases.

You can find the CQI files (developed by Mustafa Ozkaynak) of the cases described in the document and their test patients below. 

Case with CQL linkTest Patients
Antibiotic Prescriptions for Children with Pneumonia
Andrey Healthy
Audrey Allergy
Blaine Bicillin
Jeremiah Fully-Grown
Michael Sick
Please note that these test patients are in STU3 format.
Pediatric Asthma
Abdul Cough
Bronco Dilator
Frank Lung
Jenn Scell
Justin Wheezin
Lizzy Health
Mary Oldie
Please note that these test patients are in R4 format.
Adult with Type 2 Diabetes on Statins (link to be added soon)
To be added soon.
Adult Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) (link to be added soon)
To be added soon.
Pediatric Orthopedic Post-Operative Pain Management Assignment Description (link to be added soon)
To be added soon.




Created by Mustafa Ozkaynak, PhD (mustafa.ozkaynak@cuanschutz.edu), Christina Baker, MS, RN-BC.

Maintained by Mustafa Ozkaynak. Most recent update on 7/11/2021.

This assignment/document is licensed with a   Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license