Clinical-pharmaceutical assessment of medication CDSS alerts: content appropriateness and patient relevance in clinical practice.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Clinical pharmacy services and clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) are increasingly implemented to optimize medication safety. However, risks as overalerting can limit these benefits. Therefore, the Meona medication CDSS was interprofessionally evaluated and locally configured prior to implementation at Erlangen University Hospital.

Aim

We aimed to analyze the displayed CDSS alerts and to evaluate the content appropriateness and patient relevance of CDSS alerts in a hospital with established clinical ward pharmacists. Furthermore, we characterized pharmaceutical interventions triggered by CDSS and CDSS-independent interventions.

Methods

Pseudonymized clinical data of 160 patients from four clinical departments were prospectively included once between

SUBMITTER: Bauer J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11925916 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature