Impact of an electronic health record alert on inappropriate prescribing of high-risk medications to patients with concurrent "do not give" orders.

Kirsten Smith; Karin M Durant; Chris Zimmerman

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Impact of an electronic health record alert on inappropriate prescribing of high-risk medications to patients with concurrent "do not give" orders.

August 3, 2022

Smith K, Durant KM, Zimmerman C. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2022;79(14):1198-1204.

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Clinical decision support (CDS) systems built into electronic health records are designed to alert providers to potentially unsafe orders, but many alerts are ignored or overridden. This article describes the effectiveness of one hospital’s clinical decision support for high-risk medications both before and after alert improvements.

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