Design, Implementation, and Validation of a Pediatric ICU Sepsis Prediction Tool as Clinical Decision Support.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Sepsis is an uncontrolled inflammatory reaction caused by infection. Clinicians in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) developed a paper-based tool to identify patients at risk of sepsis. To improve the utilization of the tool, the PICU team integrated the paper-based tool as a real-time clinical decision support (CDS) intervention in the electronic health record (EHR).

Objective

This study aimed to improve identification of PICU patients with sepsis through an automated EHR-based CDS intervention.

Methods

A prospective cohort study of all patients admitted to the PICU from May 2017 to May 2019. A CDS intervention was implemented in May 2018. The CDS intervention screened patients for nonspecific sepsis criteria, temperature dysregulation and a blood c

SUBMITTER: Dewan M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7096320 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature