Validation of Test Performance and Clinical Time Zero for an Electronic Health Record Embedded Severe Sepsis Alert.

ABSTRACT:

Bachground

Increasing use of EHRs has generated interest in the potential of computerized clinical decision support to improve treatment of sepsis. Electronic sepsis alerts have had mixed results due to poor test characteristics, the inability to detect sepsis in a timely fashion and the use of outside software limiting widespread adoption. We describe the development, evaluation and validation of an accurate and timely severe sepsis alert with the potential to impact sepsis management.

Objective

To develop, evaluate, and validate an accurate and timely severe sepsis alert embedded in a commercial EHR.

Methods

The sepsis alert was developed by identifying the most common severe sepsis criteria among a cohort of patients with ICD 9 codes indicating a diagnosis of sepsi

SUBMITTER: Rolnick J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4941860 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature