Medication safety alert fatigue may be reduced via interaction design and clinical role tailoring: a systematic review. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Medication safety alert fatigue may be reduced via interaction design and clinical role tailoring: a systematic review. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

• Review
 
• Published June 2019

Medication safety alert fatigue may be reduced via interaction design and clinical role tailoring: a systematic review.

Hussain MI, Reynolds TL, Zheng K. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2019 Jun 17; [Epub ahead of print].

This systematic review examined the override rates of several different clinical decision support approaches. Researchers conclude that role tailoring—the provision of different alerts to prescribers versus pharmacists—was the most successful method to reduce alert fatigue. They recommend redesigning decision support to reduce alert fatigue.

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