Optimizing Best Practice Advisory alerts in electronic medical records with a multi-pronged strategy at a tertiary care hospital in Singapore.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Clinical decision support (CDS) alerts can aid in improving patient care. One CDS functionality is the Best Practice Advisory (BPA) alert notification system, wherein BPA alerts are automated alerts embedded in the hospital's electronic medical records (EMR). However, excessive alerts can change clinician behavior; redundant and repetitive alerts can contribute to alert fatigue. Alerts can be optimized through a multipronged strategy. Our study aims to describe these strategies adopted and evaluate the resultant BPA alert optimization outcomes.

Materials and methods

This retrospective single-center study was done at Jurong Health Campus. Aggregated, anonymized data on patient demographics and alert statistics were collected from January 1, 2018 to December 31, 2021

SUBMITTER: Ng HJH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10393867 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature