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. 2020 Nov 13;28(1):177–183. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocaa279

Table 3.

Committee members and groups reported to be involved in selecting and/or optimizing alerts in 8 included papers

Author Committee members and groups
Bhakta et al21

Committee

  • Physician

  • Pharmacists

  • Medication safety officers

  • Bioinformaticists

  • Other healthcare professions involved in medication use process from 8 hospitals

Supported by chief quality officer, chief medical informatics officer, EMR analysts, and the system medication safety officer
Chaparro et al22

Committee

  • Doctors: attending and resident physician

  • Nurse practitioner

  • EMR vendor analysts

Interruptive alert team (received and prioritized requests)

  • Physician informationist

  • 2 EMR vendor analysts
Liberati et al23

Working group

  • CDS pharmacist (expertise in EMR configuration)

  • Clinical informaticist (expertise in data extraction)

  • Doctors: general physician, clinical pharmacologist, junior doctor

  • Ward nurse

  • Ward pharmacists

Medicines and Therapeutics Committee (provided oversight)
Hatton et al24

Committee

  • Clinical pharmacists

Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee (provided final approval)
Helmons et al25 Committee

  • Doctors: hematologist, nephrologist, geriatrician, cardiologist, rheumatologist, neurologist, pediatrician

  • Pharmacist
Parke et al26 Committee

  • 3 clinical pharmacists

  • 2 informatics pharmacists

  • 2 physicians
Simpao et al27

Committee

  • 10 pediatric clinical pharmacists

  • Physician group

CDS Committee (provided approval)

Therapeutic Standards Committee (provided final approval)
Zenziper et al28 Committee

  • 2 clinical pharmacologists

  • 1 pharmacist

Abbreviations: CDS, clinical decision support, EMR, electronic medical record.