By including more clinically relevant alerts and improving usability, practices can better facilitate drug allergy screening in their clinical decision support systems, according to a published in ...

That process checks with an EHR for patient allergies and potentially harmful drug interactions. But a recent Leapfrog Group report found fewer than 35% of hospitals meet all the group's standards ...

The most common CDS alerts were duplicate drug (33 percent), patient allergy (17 percent) and drug interactions (16 percent.) Alerts most likely to be overridden, however, were formulary ...

The authors note that a drug allergy passport, drug allergy alert card, certificate, and discharge letter after medical evaluation are sufficient for documenting drug hypersensitivity.

Alert overload and the alert fatigue it causes can complicate treatment and lead to adverse patient results, according to a case study published in the June issue of Pediatrics. The study analyzed ...

An allergic reaction to a drug can be very serious and potentially deadly, but some people don't know how to recognize one or what to do if they have one.Medications come with tons of warnings ...