Janina A Bittmann, Elisabeth K Rein, Michael Metzner, Walter E Haefeli, Hanna M Seidling
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Abstract
Background: Through targeted medication alerts, clinical decision support systems (CDSS) help users to identify medication errors such as disregarded drug-drug interactions (DDIs). Override rates of such alerts are high; however, they can be mitigated by alert tailoring or workflow-interrupting display of severe alerts that need active user acceptance or overriding. Yet, the extent to which the displayed alert interferes with the prescribers' workflow showed inconclusive impact on alert acceptance.
Objectives: We aimed to assess whether and how often prescriptions were changed as a potential result of interruptive alerts on different (contraindicated) prescription constellations with particularly high risks for adverse drug events (ADEs).
Methods: We retrospectively collected data of all interruptive alerts issued between March 2016 and August 2020 in the local CDSS (AiDKlinik) at Heidelberg University Hospital. The alert battery consisted of 31 distinct alerts for contraindicated DDI with simvastatin, potentially inappropriate medication for patients > 65 years (PIM, N = 14 drugs and 36 drug combinations), and contraindicated drugs in hyperkalemia (N = 5) that could be accepted or overridden giving a reason in free-text form.
Results: In 935 prescribing sessions of 500 274 total sessions, at least one interruptive alert was fired. Of all interruptive alerts, about half of the sessions were evaluable whereof in total 57.5% (269 of 468 sessions) were accepted while 42.5% were overridden. The acceptance rate of interruptive alerts differed significantly depending on the alert type (p <0.0001), reaching 85.7% for DDI alerts (N = 185), 65.3% for contraindicated drugs in hyperkalemia (N = 98), and 25.1% for PIM alerts (N = 185).
Conclusion: A total of 57.5% of the interruptive medication alerts with particularly high risks for ADE in our setting were accepted while the acceptance rate differed according to the alert type with contraindicated simvastatin DDI alerts being accepted most frequently.
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Good medicine and good healthcare demand good information. Since the journal''s founding in 1962, Methods of Information in Medicine has stressed the methodology and scientific fundamentals of organizing, representing and analyzing data, information and knowledge in biomedicine and health care. Covering publications in the fields of biomedical and health informatics, medical biometry, and epidemiology, the journal publishes original papers, reviews, reports, opinion papers, editorials, and letters to the editor. From time to time, the journal publishes articles on particular focus themes as part of a journal''s issue.
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