Adherence to drug–drug interaction alerts in high-risk patients: a trial of context-enhanced alerting.

Jon D Duke; Xiaochun Li; Paul Dexter

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Adherence to drug–drug interaction alerts in high-risk patients: a trial of context-enhanced alerting.

August 7, 2013

Duke JD, Li X, Dexter P. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2013;20(3):494-8.

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This randomized controlled trial found that tailoring drug–drug interaction alerts with relevant laboratory data did not improve physicians' adherence to treatment recommendations, even for patients at high risk of a clinically significant interaction.

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