eMJA: Quality of drug interaction alerts in prescribing and dispensing software

To the Editor: I was interested to read the results of Sweidan and colleagues’ study of drug interaction alerts in prescribing and dispensing software.1 I believe their use of the terms “sensitivity” and “specificity” differ from the standard definitions, which are usually:

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