Diane L. Seger

TL;DR: Physician computer order entry decreased the rate of nonintercepted serious medication errors by more than half, although this decrease was larger for potential ADEs than for errors that actually resulted in an ADE.

TL;DR: Improving communication between outpatients and providers may help prevent adverse events related to drugs, and many are preventable or ameliorable.

TL;DR: Guided medication dosing for inpatients with renal insufficiency appears to result in improved dose and frequency choices, and demonstrates a way in which computer-based decision support systems can improve care.

TL;DR: The data suggest that it is possible to design computerized prescribing decision support with high rates of alert recommendation acceptance by clinicians by designing a selective set of drug alerts for the ambulatory care setting and minimizing workflow disruptions by designating only critical to high-severity alerts to be interruptive to clinician workflow.

TL;DR: Tiered alerting by severity was associated with higher compliance rates of DDI alerts in the inpatient setting, and lack of tiering wasassociated with a high override rate of more severe alerts.