Drug-drug interactions that should be noninterruptive in order to reduce alert fatigue in electronic health records

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 489-493

  Phansalkar, Shobha ^a,b,c   van der Sijs, Heleen ^d   Tucker, Alisha D ^a   Desai, Amrita A ^a   Bell, Douglas S ^e,f   Teich, Jonathan M ^g   Middleton, Blackford ^a,b,c   Bates, David W ^a,b,c  

^a PARTNERS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g ELSEVIER MASSON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ANTACID AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM SALT; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR; CLOPIDOGREL; CORTICOSTEROID; DILTIAZEM; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; IMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE; IRON SALT; MACROLIDE; METHOTREXATE; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; NICOTINIC ACID; NIFEDIPINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OMEPRAZOLE; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; PARACETAMOL; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; SALICYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; THIAZIDE DIURETIC AGENT; THYROID HORMONE; UNINDEXED DRUG; ZINC DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CONSENSUS; DRUG INTERACTION; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FATIGUE; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE BASE; PATIENT SAFETY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DRUG THERAPY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; WORKFLOW;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; DRUG INTERACTIONS; DRUG THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HUMANS; MEDICAL ORDER ENTRY SYSTEMS; WORKFLOW;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84879954935     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2012-001089     Document Type: Article

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