Development of a context model to prioritize drug safety alerts in CPOE systems

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Computerized physician order entry systems (CPOE) can reduce the number of medication errors and adverse drug events (ADEs) in healthcare institutions. Unfortunately, they tend to produce a large number of partly irrelevant alerts, i...

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Main Authors: van der Sijs Heleen, Stühlinger Wolf, Hackl Werner O, Jung Martin, Riedmann Daniel, Ammenwerth Elske
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2011-05-01
Series:BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6947/11/35