Paper Info
Title
Effectiveness of interruptive alerts in increasing application functionality utilization: a controlled trial.
Abstract
Medical applications frequently contain a wide range of functionalities. Users are often unaware of all of the functionalities available. More effective ways of delivering information about available functionalities to the users are needed. We conducted a pseudo-randomized controlled trial to determine whether interruptive alerts will increase utilization of several functionalities by the users of the Pre-Admission Medication List (PAML) Builder application at two academic medical centers. In a log-linear model, alerts increased total utilization of the promoted functionalities per PAML built by 70% compared to the controls at the site level (p<0.0001). At the user level, frequency of utilization of the PAML Builder functionalities by individual users increased by 0.03 for every extra alert shown to the user (p<0.0001). Alerts led to a nearly 2-fold increase in utilization of the promoted functionalities. Interruptive alerts are an effective method of delivering information about application functionalities to users.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1016/j.jbi.2010.07.002
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
medical application,total utilization,pre-admission medication list,site level,pseudo-randomized controlled trial,builder application,log-linear model,application functionality utilization,academic medical center,effective way,available functionalities,log linear model,randomized controlled trial,controlled trial
Data mining,Medication Reconciliation,World Wide Web,Computer science,Randomized controlled trial
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
44
3
1532-0480
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.36
6
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alexander Turchin16012.60
Oliver D James210.36
Eric D Godlewski310.36
Maria Shubina4203.91
Christopher M. Coley572.46
Tejal K. Gandhi614631.56
Carol A. Broverman77127.95