Recommendations to improve the usability of drug–drug interaction clinical decision support alerts.

Payne TH, Hines LE, Chan RC, et al. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2015;22:1243-1250.

Clinical decision support alerts can help identify potential drug–drug interactions, but they can also contribute to alert fatigue. This commentary provides recommendations to inform the design of decision support to address drug–drug interactions. The authors suggest that improvement strategies focus on standardizing terminology and visual cues.