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Are We Heeding the Warning Signs? Examining Providers’ Overrides of Computerized Drug-Drug Interaction Alerts in Primary Care

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Title
Are We Heeding the Warning Signs? Examining Providers’ Overrides of Computerized Drug-Drug Interaction Alerts in Primary Care
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PLOS ONE, December 2013
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0085071
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Sarah P. Slight, Diane L. Seger, Karen C. Nanji, Insook Cho, Nivethietha Maniam, Patricia C. Dykes, David W. Bates

Abstract

Health IT can play a major role in improving patient safety. Computerized physician order entry with decision support can alert providers to potential prescribing errors. However, too many alerts can result in providers ignoring and overriding clinically important ones.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 3 2%
Korea, Republic of 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Unknown 142 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 28 19%
Student > Master 25 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 13 9%
Student > Postgraduate 12 8%
Other 32 22%
Unknown 23 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 51 34%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 16 11%
Computer Science 14 9%
Nursing and Health Professions 10 7%
Psychology 7 5%
Other 22 15%
Unknown 28 19%