Impact of non-interruptive medication laboratory monitoring alerts in ambulatory care.

Helen G. Lo; Michael E. Matheny; Diane L. Seger; David W. Bates; Tejal K. Gandhi

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Impact of non-interruptive medication laboratory monitoring alerts in ambulatory care.

January 7, 2009

Lo HG, Matheny ME, Seger DL, et al. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2009;16(1):66-71.

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"Alert fatigue" refers to the tendency of clinicians to ignore safety alerts—for example, warnings about potential drug interactions—if alerts are too frequent or perceived to be clinically irrelevant. However, in this study, less intrusive alerts that did not require physician response were not effective at encouraging use of recommended laboratory monitoring.

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