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Preventing reminder fatigue in healthcare is possible. Designing clinical reminder systems using human factors and cognitive science principles, alongside careful implementation, can maintain high response rates over time.

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  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Cognitive Science

Background:

  • Clinical reminder systems often experience decreased response rates over time, a phenomenon known as "reminder fatigue."
  • This study investigated strategies to mitigate reminder fatigue by applying human factors, cognitive science, and organizational science principles.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To determine if a reminder system designed with human factors and cognitive science principles, and implemented with organizational science principles, can prevent reminder fatigue.
  • To analyze factors influencing clinician action in response to clinical reminders.

Main Methods:

  • Retrospective cohort study of 988,149 reminders across 5 family medicine practices from 2006-2012.
  • Logistic regression was used to model the odds of clinician action based on reminder frequency, patient problem list complexity, patient age, and time since system launch.
  • Key design features included context-specific reminders, workflow integration, concise messaging, and team-based implementation.

Main Results:

  • Clinician action was taken for 60.1% of reminders, with an additional 26.8% documented as discussed or considered.
  • Odds ratios for action indicated a slight increase over time (1.01), with higher odds for more prompts per encounter (1.18) and more patient problems (1.02).
  • Effective design elements included timely, workflow-integrated, and simple reminders, supported by team buy-in.

Conclusions:

  • Reminder fatigue is not an inevitable consequence of increasing reminder volume or patient complexity.
  • A well-designed and implemented reminder system, grounded in cognitive science and human factors engineering, can successfully prevent reminder fatigue.