Recommendations to improve the usability of drug-drug interaction clinical decision support alerts

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1243-1250

  Payne, Thomas H ^a   Hines, Lisa E ^b   Chan, Raymond C ^c   Hartman, Seth ^d   Kapusnik Uner, Joan ^e   Russ, Alissa L ^f,s   Chaffee, Bruce W ^g   Hartman, Christian ^h   Tamis, Victoria ⁱ   Galbreth, Brian ^j   Glassman, Peter A ^k   Phansalkar, Shobha ^l   van der Sijs, Heleen ^m   Gephart, Sheila M ^b   Mann, Gordon ⁿ   Strasberg, Howard R ^l   Grizzle, Amy J ^b   Brown, Mary ^b   Kuperman, Gilad J ^o   Steiner, Chris ^p   Sullins, Amanda ^q   Ryan, Hugh ^q   Wittie, Michael A ^r   Malone, Daniel C ^b   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c SENTARA HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^d OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e First DataBank Inc   (United States)

^f REGENSTRIEF INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^h Pharmacy OneSource   (United States)

ⁱ PeaceHealth St John Medical Center   (United States)

^j Peacehealth Southwest Medical Center   (United States)

^k VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^l Medical Informatics   (United States)

^m ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

ⁿ Epic   (United States)

^o NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^p ELSEVIER MASSON   (France)

^q CERNER CORPORATION   (United States)

^r U S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

^s PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Alerts; Clinical decision support; CPOE (up to 5); Drug interactions; Usability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COLOR; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DRUG INFORMATION; DRUG INTERACTION; DRUG USE; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; INFORMATION SCIENCE; NOMENCLATURE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; QT PROLONGATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DRUG THERAPY; CONSENSUS; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; PHYSICIAN ORDER ENTRY SYSTEM; STANDARDS;

CONSENSUS; DRUG INTERACTIONS; DRUG THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; HUMANS; MEDICAL ORDER ENTRY SYSTEMS;

EID: 84945490735     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocv011     Document Type: Article

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