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24 Steering committee The CDSS project was supervised by a steering committee with participation, for example, from the GP at the first PHC, from the Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Karolinska University Hospital, and from the Stockholm County Council. A medically responsible physician from the latter group could stop the project if it was deemed unsafe for the patients. The development The development of the CDSS followed two steps: establishment of the concept and proof of concept (figure 1). Figure?1 Flow chart of the study at the two selleck chemical primary healthcare centres (PHCs) and the change in the number of patients with an estimated creatinine clearance according to the Cockcroft & Gault formula before and after the introduction of the renal computerised ... The development was based on four interlinked approaches: a�Cd a.?Estimation of renal function and dosing of drugs The renal function of the participating patients was calculated by an automatic estimation of ClCG using individual patient data on body weight, age, sex and P-creatinine extracted from patient information in the EHR.12 The P-creatinine was recalculated from a modified Jaffe method, standardised to isotope-dilution mass spectrometry (IDMS), to uncompensated P-creatinine. The ClCG result was visualised with an image of a kidney in three different colours according to the ClCG value (figure 2A). Advice on how ClCG should be used as support for individualised pharmacotherapy is shown (figure 2B). Each advice for selection and dosage was according to three principles: If? Is the drug suitable at all, and in what dosage? Why? What are the risks of not individualising the doses according to renal function? Because: Short text explaining the recommendations, and including references. Figure?2 (A�CD An elderly woman's list of medications integrated into the Janus window. When the general practitioner (GP) opens the medication list, the ��renal button�� appears automatically in the Janus tool bar (A) (push level). Shown ... When entering the list of prescribed drugs in the patient's EHR, the physician got an automatic alert from the Janus web-based system starting with general guidelines, for example, in a patient with a ClCG of 34?mL/min: ��The patient has moderate renal failure. Dose reduction should be considered for the following drugs��: (figure 2B). b.?Evidence�Cbased short texts The texts on selection and adjustment of doses according to the patient��s renal function were short and based on classical information. The primary source of information was the systematic list of short advice on drug dosage at decreased renal function from the 1990s to 2002, created by IO-C, and widely used by Swedish physicians and medical students.