Turning off frequently overridden drug alerts: limited opportunities for doing it safely.

Heleen van der Sijs; Jos Aarts; Teun van Gelder; Marc Berg; Arnold Vulto

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Turning off frequently overridden drug alerts: limited opportunities for doing it safely.

May 21, 2008

van der Sijs H, Aarts J, van Gelder T, et al. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2008;15(4):439-48.

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This study examined nearly 2000 drug–drug interaction (DDI) alerts that were overridden by providers and noted differential triggers based on clinician knowledge or specialty. The authors conclude that simply turning off DDI alerts is limited by these differential triggers and inconsistent drug monitoring, which may raise safety concerns that are prevented by the alerts themselves.

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