Effects of workload, work complexity, and repeated alerts on alert fatigue in a clinical decision support system.

Jessica S. Ancker; Alison Edwards; Sarah Nosal; Diane Hauser; Elizabeth Mauer; Rainu Kaushal; with the HITEC Investigators

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Effects of workload, work complexity, and repeated alerts on alert fatigue in a clinical decision support system.

May 3, 2017

Ancker JS, Edwards A, Nosal S, et al. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2017;17(1):36.

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Alarm fatigue is an increasingly recognized safety concern. This retrospective cohort study found that primary care clinicians were more likely to override alerts when there were multiple alerts per patient, but overrides were not related to overall workload or repeated exposure to the same alert. The authors recommend reducing the number of alerts per patient to address alarm fatigue.

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