Improving Diagnostic Fidelity: An Approach to Standardizing the Process in Patients With Emerging Critical Illness.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To reliably improve diagnostic fidelity and identify delays using a standardized approach applied to the electronic medical records of patients with emerging critical illness.

Patients and methods

This retrospective observational study at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, conducted June 1, 2016, to June 30, 2017, used a standard operating procedure applied to electronic medical records to identify variations in diagnostic fidelity and/or delay in adult patients with a rapid response team evaluation, at risk for critical illness. Multivariate logistic regression analysis identified predictors and compared outcomes for those with and without varying diagnostic fidelity and/or delay.

Results

The sample included 130 patients. Median age was 65 years (interquart

SUBMITTER: Jayaprakash N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6713917 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature