According to iHealthBeat, researchers studied the case of a two-year-old boy who died after the medical staff overrode more than 100 alerts over the course of a month that warned about potential drug allergy cross-reactivity.
The authors of the report wrote that excessive alerts may result in increased risks to patient safety because it renders alerts meaningless.
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