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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomed Inform. 2016 Oct 5;64:211–221. doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2016.10.002

Table 4.

Categories of inappropriate medication-order alerts and their counts.

Category # alerts
Already receiving the alerted medication or an alternative, equivalent medication 38
Contraindication 29
Old indication 8
No indication (no clinical justification, medical justification has elapsed, comfort care, patient death) 142
Insufficient data to make determination 44
261 (total)