Appropriateness of Alerts and Physicians' Responses With a Medication-Related Clinical Decision Support System: Retrospective Observational Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Alert fatigue is unavoidable when many irrelevant alerts are generated in response to a small number of useful alerts. It is necessary to increase the effectiveness of the clinical decision support system (CDSS) by understanding physicians' responses.

Objective

This study aimed to understand the CDSS and physicians' behavior by evaluating the clinical appropriateness of alerts and the corresponding physicians' responses in a medication-related passive alert system.

Methods

Data on medication-related orders, alerts, and patients' electronic medical records were analyzed. The analyzed data were generated between August 2019 and June 2020 while the patient was in the emergency department. We evaluated the appropriateness of alerts and physicians' responses for

SUBMITTER: Park H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9579928 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature