Rising drug allergy alert overrides in electronic health records: An observational retrospective study of a decade of experience

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 601-608

  Topaz, Maxim ^a,b   Seger, Diane L ^a,c   Slight, Sarah P ^a,d   Goss, Foster ^e   Lai, Kenneth ^a   Wickner, Paige G ^a   Blumenthal, Kimberly ^a,b,f   Dhopeshwarkar, Neil ^a   Chang, Frank ^a   Bates, David W ^a,b   Zhou, Li ^a,b,c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c PARTNERS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^d DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Alert fatigue; Allergy; Decision support systems clinical; Electronic health records; Electronic prescribing; Hospital; Medication systems

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ATORVASTATIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; IBUPROFEN; MORPHINE; OXYCODONE; OXYCODONE PLUS PARACETAMOL; PETHIDINE; SIMVASTATIN; SULTAMICILLIN;

ANAPHYLAXIS; ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSPASM; CROSS ALLERGY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DYSPNEA; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASSACHUSETTS; MULTICENTER STUDY; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRURITUS; RASH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; SWELLING; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; URTICARIA; VOMITING; WHEEZING; COMPUTER ASSISTED DRUG THERAPY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DRUG INTERACTION; HOSPITALIZATION; PHYSICIAN ORDER ENTRY SYSTEM;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG INTERACTIONS; DRUG THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MEDICAL ORDER ENTRY SYSTEMS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84978952313     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocv143     Document Type: Article

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