Table 3 Literature support for each factor of the context model

ADE rate of the department/hospital

[12, 27]

2

Population of the hospital

[15]

1

Professional experience of the user

[12, 15, 20, 23, 24, 27–31]

[12, 19]

12

Organizational unit

Repetition of alerts

[11, 12, 14, 20, 27, 29, 31–35]

11

Current task of the user

[11, 14, 19, 33]

4

Personal preferences of the user

[15, 27, 31, 36, 37]

[31, 34]

7

Override-rate of alerts

[11, 15, 31]

3

Specialty

[11, 12, 15, 23, 27, 28, 38]

[35]

8

Workload

[12, 19, 39]

[29]

4

Demographic data of the patient

[12, 19, 20, 27, 29–31, 37, 38, 40]

[29, 35]

12

Risk factors of the patient

[12, 24]

2

Patient/Case

Tolerance of the drug

[12, 15, 20, 31, 35–37, 40, 41]

9

Complexity of the case

[19, 20, 37, 40]

[35]

5

Clinical status of the patient

[12, 19, 27, 29, 33, 35, 37, 38]

8

Class of drug

[15, 31, 35, 40, 42]

[41]

6

Alert

Severity of the effect

[11, 12, 20, 24, 31, 35, 40, 41, 43–46]

[12, 23, 31, 33, 37, 46]

18

Probability of occurrence

[24, 44]

2

Strength of evidence

[11, 20, 24, 27, 33, 40, 47]

7

Topicality of the alert

[28, 41]

2

Type of alert

[12, 20, 35, 40, 41, 48–50]

[19, 51]

10

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