Digital innovation in healthcare: quantifying the impact of digital sepsis screening tools on patient outcomes-a multi-site natural experiment.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The National Health Service (NHS) 'move to digital' incorporating electronic patient record systems (EPR) facilitates the translation of paper-based screening tools into digital systems, including digital sepsis alerts. We evaluated the impact of sepsis screening tools on in-patient 30-day mortality across four multi-hospital NHS Trusts, each using a different algorithm for early detection of sepsis.

Methods

Using quasi-experimental methods, we investigated the impact of the screening tools. Individual-level EPR data for 718 000 patients between 2010 and 2020 were extracted to assess the impact on a target cohort and control cohort using interrupted time series analysis, based on a binomial regression model. We included one Trust which uses a paper-based screeni

SUBMITTER: Honeyford K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12035476 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature