Smart pumps improve medication safety but increase alert burden in neonatal care.

Kristin R MeltonKristen TimmonsKathleen E WalshJareen K Meinzen-DerrEric Kirkendall

Published in: BMC medical informatics and decision making (2019)

Smart pumps have the ability to improve neonatal medication safety when compliance with dose error reducing software is high. Numerous attempts to administer high doses were intercepted by dosing alerts. Clustered alerts may generate a high alert burden and limit safety benefit by desensitizing providers to alerts. Future efforts should address ways to improve alert salience.

Keyphrases

healthcare
clinical decision support
quality improvement
palliative care
emergency department
risk factors
affordable care act