Slide Presentation from the AHRQ 2007 Annual Conference

Overriding of Alerts

• Studies have shown that MDs override clinical decision support alerts a large percent of the time
  • 88% of inpatient DDI alerts overridden (Payne et al. Proc AMIA 2002)
  • 83% of inpatient drug-allergy alerts (Abookire et al. Proc AMIA 2000)
  • 89% of outpatient high severity DDI alerts and 91% of outpatient drug-allergy alerts (Weingart et al. Arch Intern Med 2003)