What strategies can reduce alert fatigue in clinical decision support systems?

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Key strategies include: tiered alerting (reserving interruptive modal alerts for high-severity scenarios and using passive indicators for low-severity information), context-aware filtering (suppressing already-acknowledged alerts and adjusting thresholds by specialty), regular governance review (multidisciplinary alert committees auditing override rates quarterly), and clinician feedback loops (sharing anonymised override data). An override rate >80% for any alert category signals it adds noise rather than safety.