Overriding drug-drug interaction alerts in clinical decision support systems: a scoping review.

Lorenzo Villa Zapata; Vignesh Subbian; Richard D Boyce; Philip D Hansten; John R. Horn; Sheila M. Gephart; Andrew Romero V; Daniel C. Malone

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Overriding drug-drug interaction alerts in clinical decision support systems: a scoping review.

September 7, 2022

Villa Zapata L, Subbian V, Boyce RD, et al. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2022;290:380-384.

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Computerized decision support systems can alert clinicians to drug-drug interactions (DDIs), but the alert fatigue contributes to alert overrides. This scoping review includes 34 studies from the United States and international settings and identified a high prevalence of DDI alert overrides. The authors discuss the need for improved decision support systems to improve DDI alerts and actionable metrics to measure harms associated with alert overrides.

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