Articles Tagged With: alerts
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ED Is Focus of Reduction in Sepsis-Related Mortality
Using a sepsis alert, combined with nursing protocols and physician order set usage, can improve core measure compliance and related mortality rates.
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Researchers and IRBs Reconsider Minimal Risk After Trial Results
A clinical trial that involved studying electronic health record alerts for acute kidney injury seemed to be minimal risk to both the researchers and the IRBs that approved it. However, when two hospitals involved in the study reported an increased mortality rate, the researchers and the IRBs reconsidered what is truly minimal risk in these types of studies.
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Improve Clinical Decision Support to Alleviate Frustration
Clinical decision support (CDS) is meant to improve care quality by providing helpful alerts and advice to the electronic health record user. However, too often the result is an annoying proliferation of pop-ups that only frustrate clinicians. When the CDS system interrupts too much with alerts that are not useful, the result can be counterproductive. Clinicians routinely dismiss alerts. In the process, they may ignore those alerts that are useful, say researchers and hospital leaders.
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EHRs Are Still a Work in Progress
Recent research may not tell the whole story about electronic health records (EHRs) and patient safety. Hospitals must be vigilant in weighing the benefits of using clinical decision support tools in EHRs against the potential downsides of overly tying doctors to their computers with an abundance of manual, perceived non-value-added tasks.
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EHRs Still Not Improving Safety After Years of Promise
Recent research indicates electronic health records still are not improving patient safety, despite years of efforts to make them more effective in preventing errors and boosting adherence to best practices.
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Study: Hospitals Using 154 Code Combinations
A paper cited research from Pennsylvania healthcare facilities between 2004 and 2013 showing that they used 80 different emergency codes to designate 37 separate functional categories. That meant there were 154 possible combinations to interpret correctly.
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Minimize overrides of technology to improve patient safety
Patient safety could be improved by developing criteria for alerts that focus on opportunities for patient harm, while preventing alert fatigue and minimizing the need for overrides, according to recent research from the Pennsylvania Safety Authority in Harrisburg.
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Effects of a Rapid Response System Driven by Real-time Automated Clinical Alerts
The addition of an automated real-time clinical deterioration alert system to a rapid response system had marginal effects.