Cognitive task analysis of clinicians' drug-drug interaction management during patient care and implications for alert design.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Drug-drug interactions (DDIs) are common and can result in patient harm. Electronic health records warn clinicians about DDIs via alerts, but the clinical decision support they provide is inadequate. Little is known about clinicians' real-world DDI decision-making process to inform more effective alerts.

Objective

Apply cognitive task analysis techniques to determine informational cues used by clinicians to manage DDIs and identify opportunities to improve alerts.

Design

Clinicians submitted incident forms involving DDIs, which were eligible for inclusion if there was potential for serious patient harm. For selected incidents, we met with the clinician for a 60 min interview. Each interview transcript was analysed to identify decision requirements and delin

SUBMITTER: Russ-Jara AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10693887 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature