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Alert fatigue measurement in clinical decision support: a systematic review

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Systematic review identifies inconsistent definitions and measures of alert fatigue in clinical settings, suggesting improvements.

The review aims to clarify definitions and measures of alert fatigue in clinical decision support systems.
Systematic review of systematic reviews focusing on alert-related metrics for electronic alerts.
Databases searched included Cochrane Library, Embase, and PubMed up to 2024.
Quality assessment used the Revised Assessment of Multiple Systematic Reviews.
Twenty-two studies were included, reporting between 1 and 11 alert metrics.
Most studies were of medium quality with often insufficient details on primary characteristics.
Only one study provided an operational definition of alert fatigue, focusing on quantity, override rate, and acceptance rate.

Ray et al. (2026) studied this question.

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