Notification of real-time clinical alerts generated by pharmacy expert systems

Proc AMIA Symp. 1999:325-9.

Abstract

We developed and implemented a strategy for notifying clinical pharmacists of alerts generated in real-time by two pharmacy expert systems: one for drug dosing and the other for adverse drug event prevention. Display pagers were selected as the preferred notification method and a concise, yet readable, format for displaying alert data was developed. This combination of real-time alert generation and notification via display pagers was shown to be efficient and effective in a 30-day trial.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Clinical Pharmacy Information Systems*
  • Contraindications
  • Drug Therapy
  • Drug Therapy, Computer-Assisted*
  • Evaluation Studies as Topic
  • Expert Systems*
  • Hospital Communication Systems
  • Humans
  • Medical Errors / prevention & control*
  • Pharmaceutical Preparations / administration & dosage
  • Pharmacists

Substances

  • Pharmaceutical Preparations