Clinical decision support system supported interventions in hospitalized older patients: a matter of natural course and adequate timing.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Drug-related problems (DRPs) and potentially inappropriate prescribing (PIP) are associated with adverse patient and health care outcomes. In the setting of hospitalized older patients, Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSSs) could reduce PIP and therefore improve clinical outcomes. However, prior research showed a low proportion of adherence to CDSS recommendations by clinicians with possible explanatory factors such as little clinical relevance and alert fatigue.

Objective

To investigate the use of a CDSS in a real-life setting of hospitalized older patients. We aim to (I) report the natural course and interventions based on the top 20 rule alerts (the 20 most frequently generated alerts per clinical rule) of generated red CDSS alerts (those requiring action)

SUBMITTER: Zwietering NA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10941377 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature