Reducing Clinician Burden and Alert Fatigue

Clinical decision support (CDS) alerts hold promise to improve patient safety but may also endanger it. Finding the balance between effectiveness, efficiency, safety, burden, and clinician concerns such as loss of autonomy will remain a challenge. With appropriate governance, monitoring, and analysis it will be possible to optimize alerting within clinical workflows and share knowledge and strategies across organizations to improve safety by effective use of CDS without contributing to alert fatigue and burden for clinicians.