Development and Validation of an Emergency Department Electronic Medical Record Gout Flare Alert.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Patients with acute gout are frequently treated in the emergency department (ED) and represent a typically underresourced and understudied population. A key limitation for gout research in the ED is the timely ability to identify acute gout patients. Our goal was to refine a multicriteria, electronic medical record alert for gout flares and to determine its diagnostic characteristics in the ED.

Methods

The gout flare alert used electronic medical record data from ED nursing notes and was triggered by the term 'gout' preceding past medical history in the chief complaint, the term 'gout' and a musculoskeletal problem in the chief complaint, or the term 'gout' in the problem list and a musculoskeletal chief complaint. We validated its diagnostic properties to assess p

SUBMITTER: Jackson LE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10500930 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature