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SUBMITTER: Shah NR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1380196 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Jan-Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 20051012 1
Computerized drug prescribing alerts can improve patient safety, but are often overridden because of poor specificity and alert overload. Our objective was to improve clinician acceptance of drug alerts by designing a selective set of drug alerts for the ambulatory care setting and minimizing workflow disruptions by designating only critical to high-severity alerts to be interruptive to clinician workflow. The alerts were presented to clinicians using computerized prescribing within an electroni ...[more]