Applying human factors principles to alert design increases efficiency and reduces prescribing errors in a scenario-based simulation.

CONCLUSIONS: This simulation study provides evidence that applying human factors design principles to medication alerts can improve usability and prescribing outcomes.
PMID: 24668841 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association - March 25, 2014 Category: Information Technology Authors: Russ AL, Zillich AJ, Melton BL, Russell SA, Chen S, Spina JR, Weiner M, Johnson EG, Daggy JK, McManus MS, Hawsey JM, Puleo AG, Doebbeling BN, Saleem JJ Tags: J Am Med Inform Assoc Source Type: research