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Table 1 Characteristics of study sample

From: Effects of workload, work complexity, and repeated alerts on alert fatigue in a clinical decision support system

 

All years

2010

2011

2012

Jan – Jun 2013

Clinicians, n

112

55

70

90

87

Nurse practitioners, n (%)*

19 (17)

6 (11)

8 (11)

12 (13)

15 (17)

Female, n (%)

71 (63)

32 (58)

44 (63)

56 (62)

54 (62)

Attested for meaningful use, n (%)†

42 (38)

33 (60)

42 (60)

42 (47)

41 (47)

Annual patients per clinician, median (Q1-Q3)

791 (406-1269)

968 (424-1336)

896 (429-1341)

758 (354-1337)

521 (391-794)

Annual encounters per clinician, median (Q1-Q3)

1357 (630-2287)

1850 (840-2416)

1695 (834-2562)

1580 (508-2389)

882 (511-1277)

Patient comorbidity score, median (Q1-Q3)‡

0.3 (0.2-0.4)

0.3 (0.2-0.4)

0.3 (0.2-0.4)

0.4 (0.2-0.5)

0.3 (0.2-0.4)

BPAs in use, total

126

93

94

98

93

Annual BPAs received per clinician, median (Q1-Q3)

4227 (2057-6897)

5265 (2739-7652)

5075 (2602-8070)

4310 (1756-7249)

2486 (1625-3799)

Percent BPAs accepted per clinician, median (Q1-Q3)

19.4 (11.8-28.5)

18.6 (13.0-27.0)

19.6 (12.6-30.0)

20.9 (10.7-30.0)

18.6 (10.4-26.0)

DDI/DAI alerts in use, total

3213

2045

1599

1819

1364

Annual alerts received per clinician, median (Q1-Q3)

966 (407-1762)

1116 (580-2169)

1140 (547-2131)

1231 (310-1831)

622 (255-969)

Percent accepted per clinician, median (Q1-Q3)

0.0 (0.0-0.3)

0.0 (0.0-0.4)

0.0 (0.0-0.4)

0.0 (0.0-0.2)

0.0 (0.0-0.2)

  1. DDI drug-drug interaction, DAI drug-allergy interaction
  2. *All other clinicians are MDs or DOs
  3. †All of these attested during 2012
  4. ‡Comorbidity score calculated by Johns Hopkins aggregated diagnosis group algorithm