Reducing Drug Interaction Alerts: Not So Easy

摘要

Recently, the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) devoted part of its newsletter to the problem of ignored drug interaction alerts that are generated by computerized screening systems.1 Readers of this column in Pharmacy Times know that this is an issue we have discussed on other occasions over the past several years.2 We strongly believe that this is a critically important problem for all pharmacists in all practice settings. Further, it is becoming increasingly significant for other health care providers as the screening systems reach new users; for example, following the initiation of computerized physician order entry.