Effects of workload, work complexity, and repeated alerts on alert fatigue in a clinical decision support system

Abstract Background Although alert fatigue is blamed for high override rates in contemporary clinical decision support systems, the concept of alert fatigue is poorly defined. We tested hypotheses arising from two possible alert fatigue mechanisms: (A) cognitive overload associated with amount of wo...

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Main Authors: Jessica S. Ancker, Alison Edwards, Sarah Nosal, Diane Hauser, Elizabeth Mauer, Rainu Kaushal, with the HITEC Investigators
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-04-01
Series:BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12911-017-0430-8