Glossary and list of abbreviations
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AI: artificial intelligence
AKI: acute kidney injury
BAU: business as usual
BCTs: behaviour change techniques
BMJ: British Medical Journal
BNF: British National Formulary
CDS: clinical decision support system
COM-B: the Capability, Opportunity and Motivation model of Behaviour change
DSS: decision support system
EHR: electronic health record
EPOC: Cochrane Effective Practice & Organisation of Care review group
GDPR: General Data Protection Regulations
GUIDES: an evidence-based guideline and checklist for implementing DSS
IQR: interquartile range (25th to 75th centile)
K2A: Knowledge into Action
LHS: Learning Health and care System
MARS: Mobile App Rating Scale
MHRA: Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency
NASSS: the Non-Adoption, Abandonment and challenges to Scale-up, Spread and Sustainability) framework for technology innovation
NEWS2: new early warning system calculator
PDSA: Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles
PROMS: Patient Reported Outcome Measures
RCTs: randomised controlled trials
RDP: Right Decisions platform
RDS: Right Decision Service
SBAR: Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation (reporting format)
SMART: an acronym for Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-Bound objectives
SWOT: analysing the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats
TURAS: NHS Education for Scotland's learning and workforce platform
UAT: User acceptance testing
UKCA: UK Conformity Assessed (for compliance with Medical Devices Regulations)
URL: Uniform Resource Locator ie. web address
VTE: venous thrombo-embolism
W3C: World Wide Web Consortium