Making electronic prescribing alerts more effective: scenario-based experimental study in junior doctors.
Scott GPT, Shah P, Wyatt JC, et al. Making electronic prescribing alerts more effective: scenario-based experimental study in junior doctors. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2011;18(6):789-98. doi:10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000199.
This study found that modal prescribing alerts—warnings that required a response from physicians, akin to forcing functions—were significantly more effective at preventing prescribing errors than alerts that could simply be ignored.