7 Similar to previous reports, 19 clinicians in our focus groups suggested suppressing alerts for renewals of medication combinations that patients currently tolerate.
12 15 16 19 Alert fatigue created by too many drug alerts is a common complaint, 17 34 and methods of over-riding, or suppressing alerts are highly valued, particularly when alerts are presented in an interruptive manner.
Clinicians in the focus groups suggested suppressing alerts for renewals of medication combinations that patients were currently taking and tolerating, as well as for alerts related to medications that were used for short-term courses of therapy.
Frustration is often secondary to inappropriate use of the system, for example, failure to acknowledge alerts even when doing the correct thing or not noting options in the risk assessment which would suppress future alerts.
For example, benzodiazepine receptor agonists and histamine receptor antagonists (antihistamines) also suppress histaminergic alerting, besides diverse other actions.
It is noteworthy that a prescription of warfarin or a patient being already given anticoagulants is part of the VTE risk assessment process and the correct recording of this would contraindicate enoxaparin and suppress subsequent alerts.
Research has shown that blue light makes you more alert and suppresses your melatonin, thus hurting your quality of sleep.
She and her more rational husband, solidly enacted by Vince Campbell, uneasily project this unwelcome duality, suppressing the urge to alert their good friends to the trap.
The finding adds to a series of others suggesting, though certainly not proving, that exposure to blue light may keep us more awake and alert, partly by suppressing production of melatonin.
In addition, physicians have the option to suppress and not view serious and/or moderate alerts (eg, level 2 and/or 3) as well as individual drug alerts that he or she disagrees with at the time the alert is generated.
Chewing the leaves makes people feel more alert, euphoric and talkative, and suppresses appetite [ 11, 12].
