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Improving medication-related clinical decision support.

March 7, 2018

Tolley CL, Slight SP, Husband AK, et al. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2018;75(4):239-246.

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This systematic review of clinical decision support for safe medication use found that such systems are incompletely implemented and lack standardization and integration of patient-specific factors. The authors suggest that reducing alert fatigue and employing human factors principles would enhance decision support effectiveness.

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