Describes an effort to reduce alert rates from drug-drug interactions, with some evidence that fewer alerts led to increased salience (lower override rates). Rates for pharmacists fell from 58.74 alerts per 100 orders to 25/100 orders. For providers, the drop in rates was less dramatic (~20 to 15/100 orders) but they were getting far fewer alerts in the first place. Pharmacists’ rate of alert overrides fell, but providers’ rates stayed the same. The basic methodology used was a visualization tool developed in a commercially available data-visualization application.
Simpao 2015 (JAMIA) | PubMed 25318641 | Author Search
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