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Table 2 Reasons selected upon overriding alert from pull-down menu or entered as free text

From: Retrospective descriptive assessment of clinical decision support medication-related alerts in two Saudi Arabian hospitals

Reasons from drop down menu

Total

Percentage of total reasons this option was selected (%)

Physician Approved Override

1,835,154

43.366

No Overridden Reason Selected

1,594,313

37.675

Physician Reviewed Drug Interaction

329,606

7.789

Physician Clinical Judgement

231,177

5.463

Physician Addressed

125,788

2.972

Physician Previously Reviewed

32,648

0.772

Other

32,141

0.760

Pharmacist Clinical Judgement

19,077

0.451

Consulted Physician, OK Received

14,389

0.340

Free text entries

13,461

0.318

Pharmacist Reviewed Drug Interaction

2,061

0.049

Pharmacist Reviewed Allergy

1,928

0.046

Total

4,231,743

100