Table 1 The number and percentage of alerts generated and overridden per alert type during the study period
Alert type | Generated | Overridden | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Number | Percentage of total generated alerts (%) | Number | Percentage of alerts overridden | |
Switch medication from injectable form to oral | 23,345 | 0.5 | 22,839 | 97.8 |
Dose range | 491,830 | 11.1 | 480,898 | 97.8 |
Drug interaction | 318,809 | 7.2 | 310,096 | 97.3 |
Drug duplicate | 3,549,736 | 79.8 | 3,362,733 | 94.7 |
Vincristine | 17 | 0.000 | 16 | 94.1 |
Drug allergy | 12,187 | 0.3 | 11,122 | 91.3 |
Documentation of height and weight | 47,927 | 1.1 | 43,089 | 89.9 |
G6PD-syndrome | 82 | 0.00018 | 66 | 80.5 |
Egg allergy | 226 | 0.005 | 145 | 64.2 |
New drug allergy | 1455 | 0.033 | 718 | 49.3 |
Stop order | 1116 | 0.0251 | 21 | 1.9 |
Total | 4,446,730 | 100 | 4,231,743 | 95.2 |