March 30, 2018 | Today’s News
Today's Top Story Study: Inappropriate CDS overrides may increase risk of adverse drug events Findings from a study published online in the journal BMJ Quality & Safety suggest that inappropriate overrides of clinical decision support (CDS) alerts in electronic health records may be linked to an increased risk of adverse drug events (ADEs). The authors conducted a prospective, observational study of 2,448 overridden CDS alerts across 712 unique patient encounters. They determined that 81.6 percent of overrides [...]