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A Potential Answer to the Alert Override Riddle: Using Patient Attributes to Predict False Positive Alerts.
Article in AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- Identifying false-positive drug allergy alerts based on drug tolerance assertions: a retrospective study.JAMIA open · 2026Article
- In pursuit of the alert fatigue: an assessment of drug alert burden at a large academic medical center.AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium · 2024Article
- Assessing the Usability of a Novel Wearable Remote Patient Monitoring Device for the Early Detection of In-Hospital Patient Deterioration: Observational Study.JMIR formative research · 2022Article
- Racial Disparity in Clinical Alert Overrides.AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium · 2021Article
- Temporal Change in Alert Override Rate with a Minimally Interruptive Clinical Decision Support on a Next-Generation Electronic Medical Record.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2020Article
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Abstract
Electronic health records (EHRs) use alerts to help prevent medical errors, yet clinicians override many of these alerts due to desensitization from constant exposure (alert fatigue). We hypothesize that a clinician might override an alert warning about the dangers of a treatment if the patient's health is so poor that the treatment is worth the risk or if a patient's health suggests the treatment is not needed. We used logistic regression with general estimating equations to determine if the Early Warning Score (EWS), a measurement used to predict critical care need, could be used to predict alert overrides. EWS was a significant predictor of overrides for three alerts. Although EWS could not predict overrides for all alert rules, these results suggest that EWS may be helpful for some alerts, but that additional EHR data will be needed for predicting override behavior to a useful degree.
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