"alert fatigue" caused by the increasing number of drug interaction warnings
May 2012
You'll see more attention to "alert fatigue" caused by the increasing number of drug interaction warnings.
Your computer system is programmed to catch as many problems as possible...but crying wolf too often can backfire.
Up to 90% of alerts are now simply overridden. And for good reason...only one serious interaction is prevented for every 2,700 computer alerts.
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