TY - JOUR AU - Ancker, Jessica S. AU - Edwards, Alison AU - Nosal, Sarah AU - Hauser, Diane AU - Mauer, Elizabeth AU - Kaushal, Rainu AU - with the HITEC Investigators PY - 2017 DA - 2017/04/10 TI - Effects of workload, work complexity, and repeated alerts on alert fatigue in a clinical decision support system JO - BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making SP - 36 VL - 17 IS - 1 AB - Although alert fatigue is blamed for high override rates in contemporary clinical decision support systems, the concept of alert fatigue is poorly defined. We tested hypotheses arising from two possible alert fatigue mechanisms: (A) cognitive overload associated with amount of work, complexity of work, and effort distinguishing informative from uninformative alerts, and (B) desensitization from repeated exposure to the same alert over time. SN - 1472-6947 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12911-017-0430-8 DO - 10.1186/s12911-017-0430-8 ID - Ancker2017 ER -