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J Am Med Inform Assoc 13:5-11 doi:10.1197/jamia.M1868
  • The Practice of Informatics

Improving Acceptance of Computerized Prescribing Alerts in Ambulatory Care

Table 4

Most Frequent Override Reasons Provided by Clinician

Contraindication Override Reasons (%)
Duplicate class Transitioning from one medication to other (42)
Patient is on long-term therapy with combination (21)
Short-term or as-needed dosing (7)
Drug-drug Will monitor as recommended (49)
Patient has already tolerated combination (21)
Will adjust dose as recommended (14)
Drug-lab Will monitor/manage as recommended (67)
More recent lab result available that warrants use (18)
Drug-disease Patient has tolerated this drug in the past (56)
New evidence supports therapy of this type (22)
Drug-pregnancy Patient is not pregnant (90)
Patient is not of child-bearing potential (5)

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