Repurposing clinical decision support system data to measure dosing errors and clinician-level quality of care.

Clinical decision support (CDS) alerts can improve patient safety, and prior research suggests that monitoring alert overrides can identify errors. The researchers describe a novel approach to using existing CDS systems to detect medication prescribing errors based on drug-drug interaction and allergy alert overrides. Dose alert overrides had high sensitivity to detect medication prescribing errors occurring in an inpatient setting.