Feedback at the Point of Care to Decrease Medication Alert Rates in an Electronic Health Record

Conclusions User-centered, context-specific alert feedback can be used for selecting suboptimal, interruptive medication alerts. Frequently overridden alerts in the electronic health record can highlight alerts that may need revision. This method is a way of fine-tuning clinical decision support. We evaluated the feasibility of a complementary, yet different method that directly involved pediatric emergency department (PED) providers in identifying additional medication alerts that were potentially incorrect or intrusive. We then evaluated the effect subsequent resulting modifications had on alert salience.
Source: Pediatric Emergency Care - Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: IT in the ED Source Type: research