Making electronic prescribing alerts more effective: scenario-based experimental study in junior doctors.

Gregory P T Scott; Priya Shah; Jeremy C. Wyatt; Boikanyo Makubate; Frank W. Cross

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Making electronic prescribing alerts more effective: scenario-based experimental study in junior doctors.

December 31, 2014

Scott GPT, Shah P, Wyatt JC, et al. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2011;18(6):789-98.

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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.

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