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Table 1 Human factors principles assessed by the Instrument for Evaluating Human Factors Principles in Medication-Related Decision Support Alerts (I-MeDeSA) [18]

From: Reliability, ease of use and usefulness of I-MeDeSA for evaluating drug-drug interaction alerts in an Australian context

Human factors principle

Number of items in the I-MeDeSA that assess this principle

Alarm philosophy

1

Placement

4

Visibility

3

Prioritization

5

Colour

2

Learnability and confusability

1

Text-based information

6

Proximity of task components being displayed

1

Corrective actions

3