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

Table 4 The percentage and number of alerts assessed to be overridden appropriately for each alert type from the inpatient and outpatient according to setting

Alert type	Alerts assessed from the outpatient setting	Alerts assessed from the inpatient setting	Total number of alerts assessed	Total number of overrides considered appropriate	Percentage of alerts overridden appropriately
Switch medication from injectable form to oral	2	16	18	18	100
Egg allergy	22	18	40	38	95.0
Glucose 6 Phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency syndrome	0	16	16	15	93.8
Dose range	22	14	36	32	88.9
Drug duplicate	21	16	37	32	86.5
Documentation of height and weight	22	16	38	32	84.2
Drug interaction	22	15	37	31	83.9
Vincristine	0	11	11	7	63.6
Drug allergy	21	16	37	23	62.2
New drug allergy	21	16	37	16	43.2
Total	153	154	307	244	79.5

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