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Infusions for medications in the critical care and acute care area drug groups were included if they had a positive dose. Infusions were excluded if they were associated with multiple care areas or had a duration of more than 24\u2005hours. Data were collected on safety events (hard and soft limit alerts, single-step rate change [SSRC] alerts, good catches, pullbacks, overrides), productivity metrics (number of programming steps, median time to initiate infusions, mean time to resolve alerts), and compliance with programming approaches. Outcomes were analyzed descriptively and compared across various subgroups using \u03c72 tests, t tests, or Wilcoxon rank-sum tests.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Smart pump\u2013EMR integration significantly reduced the occurrence of medication safety alerts: the rate of hard limit, soft limit, and SSRC alerts decreased by 50.3%, 30.4%, and 38.1%, respectively (all P &amp;lt; 0.001). These reductions were consistent across high-alert medications (HAMs)\/Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS) medications and the top 20 medications by alert frequency. The rate of good catches also decreased after integration. Auto-programming had fewer programming steps (1.6 vs 3.3 steps) and shorter alert resolution times (46.3% shorter for soft limit alerts and 55.0% shorter for SSRC alerts) than manual programming (both P &amp;lt; 0.001). Dose error reduction system compliance increased to 96.1% after integration, while auto-programming compliance was 53.4% overall and 68.3% for HAMs\/REMS medications.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Smart pump\u2013EMR integration and auto-programming were associated with significantly fewer safety alerts, fewer steps to initiate infusions, and shorter times to resolve alerts. 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