Table 1.

Reasons for the pharmaceutical irrelevance of critical and noncritical alerts, according to the clinical pharmacist.

Reason	Critical Alerts n = 871	Noncritical Alerts n = 1560
Poor performance by the CDSS, n (%)	539 (61.9%)	1004 (64.4%)
Pharmacist’s decision to monitor the patient, n (%)	136 (15.6%)	254 (16.3%)
Irrelevant alert for the ward in question, n (%)	70 (8.0%)	208 (13.3%)
Other, n (%)	122 (14.0%)	60 (3.8%)
Missing data, n (%)	4 (0.5%)	34 (2.2%)

CDSS: clinical decision support system.