Improving medication-related clinical decision support. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Improving medication-related clinical decision support. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

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• Published February 2018

Improving medication-related clinical decision support.

Tolley CL, Slight SP, Husband AK, Watson N, Bates DW. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2018;75:239-246.

This systematic review of clinical decision support for safe medication use found that such systems are incompletely implemented and lack standardization and integration of patient-specific factors. The authors suggest that reducing alert fatigue and employing human factors principles would enhance decision support effectiveness.

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