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

Sarah P. Slight, Diane L. Seger, Karen C. Nanji, Insook Cho, Nivethietha Maniam, Patricia C. Dykes, David W. Bates

PLoS ONE · 2013 · 88 citations · 12 references

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Abstract

We found that providers continue to override important and useful alerts that are likely to cause serious patient injuries, even when relatively few false positive alerts are displayed.

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