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Improving Acceptance of Computerized Prescribing Alerts in Ambulatory Care
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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 electronic medical record in 31 Boston-area practices. There were 18,115 drug alerts generated during our six-month study period. Of these, 12,933 (71%) were noninterruptive and 5,182 (29%) interruptive. Of the 5,182 interruptive alerts, 67% were accepted. Reasons for overrides varied for each drug alert category and provided potentially useful information for future alert improvement. These data suggest that it is possible to design computerized prescribing decision support with high rates of alert recommendation acceptance by clinicians.
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“Alert nonadherence, or clinician overrides, is one key barrier that occurs for 49%–96% of alerts.13–23”
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“While the overall override rate in this study is at the lower end of what is reported in the literature, it is higher than the rate we reported from our ambulatory care practices in a prior study in 2006.14”
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“At that time, we found that 33% of interruptive CDS alerts in outpatient systems were overridden, with override rates ranging widely by the type of warning, from 23% for duplicate class warnings to 90% for drug-pregnancy interactions.14”
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“Furthermore, although we have extensively modified the CDS system at our center to promote user acceptance and reduce alert fatigue, 13 we have continued to observe a high level of CDS alert overrides.14”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Shah, N. R., Seger, A. C., Seger, D. L., Fiskio, J. M., Kuperman, G. J., Blumenfeld, B., Recklet, E. G., Bates, D. W., & Gandhi, T. K.
- Affiliations
- Brigham and Women's Hospital (US)
- Corresponding author
- Gandhi, Tejal K.
- Venue
- Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2006-01
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 5-11
- ISSN
- 1067-5027 (ISSN-L)
- 1527-974X
- PMC
- PMC1380196
- OpenAlex
- W2131675703
- Cited by
- 353
- References
- 22
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 14 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 16 · 2016: 23 · 2015: 25 · 2014: 24 · 2013: 32 · 2012: 40
- FWCI
- 22.35
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (2t32hs000020-18, R01-HS1169)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Health Information Management › Electronic Health Records Systems
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Patient Safety and Medication Errors
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Geriatrics and Gerontology › Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes
- Keywords
- drug alerts, alert override, clinician acceptance, interruptive alerts, electronic health records, outpatient care, patient safety, workflow disruption
- MeSH terms
- Contraindications, Adult, Ambulatory Care Information Systems, Attitude of Health Personnel, Attitude to Computers, Drug Therapy, Computer-Assisted, Pharmaceutical Preparations, Female, Humans, Medication Errors, Pregnancy, Drug Prescriptions, Primary Health Care, User-Computer Interface, Medical Records Systems, Computerized, Reminder Systems, Medical Order Entry Systems
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