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BACKGROUND High-alert medications pose a greater risk of causing significant harm to patients if used in error. The Joint Commission requires that hospitals define institution-specific high-alert medications and implement processes to ensure safe medication use. METHOD Nursing, pharmacy, and prescribers were asked to voluntarily complete a 34-question survey to assess their knowledge, experie...

The technique of spatial modulating (“jittering”) an existing or newly created auditory alert along a virtual trajectory to improve its detection in a noisy environment is described. Threshold data from 14 participants were gathered as a function of spatial modulation rate (0, 1.6 and 3.3 Hz) of an avionics “wind sheer” alert (two successive 300 ms square waves) against a steady state backgroun...

BACKGROUND Clinical decision support systems can prevent knowledge-based prescription errors and improve patient outcomes. The clinical effectiveness of these systems, however, is substantially limited by poor user acceptance of presented warnings. To enhance alert acceptance it may be useful to quantify the impact of potential modulators of acceptance. METHODS We built a logistic regression ...