Table 2.

Features of a medication-related clinical decision support (CDS) described individually by clinicians (N=21 clinicians)

CDS feature	n
Patient specific	15
Passive	7
Clinical dashboard or when viewing schedule	2
Use smart text or template	5
Interruptive	12
Only alert for designated primary care physician (context)	3
Summarise pertinent diagnostics (eg, labs)	12
With dates	6
Trends	2
Figure/graph of trends	1
Summarise pertinent medications	16
Include cost of medication	6
Include potential reasons recommendation not appropriate	1
Option to access supporting information or references	4
Actionable links to place orders	13
Populate patient instructions with text	2
Populate clinical documentation with text	6
Option to disable or delay future alerts	10
Option to give rationale not appropriate	6

Clinicians could draw/describe as many features as they wanted, including more than one CDS.