Retrospective descriptive assessment of clinical decision support medication-related alerts in two Saudi Arabian hospitals.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To determine the frequency of clinical decision support system (CDSS) medication-related alerts generated, accepted, or overridden, to assess appropriateness of alert display and overrides, and to characterise the documentation of clinician justification for these overrides in an academic medical centre in Saudi Arabia.

Materials and methods

System-generated CDSS reports for the period June 2015 to December 2017 were retrospectively reviewed and analysed. Alerts were classified into different types, and rates of alert overrides calculated as percentages of all generated alerts. A subset of 307 overridden alerts was assessed for appropriateness of display and override by two clinical pharmacists. Physician documentation of reasons for overriding alerts were categor

SUBMITTER: Alsaidan JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9012024 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature