Validation of test performance and clinical time zero for an electronic health record embedded...

Conclusion: We are the first to report the time between a sepsis alert and physician chart-review clinical time zero. Incorporating physician orders in the alert criteria improves specificity while maintaining sensitivity, which is important to reduce alert fatigue. By leveraging standard EHR functionality, this alert could be implemented by other healthcare systems....
Source: Applied Clinical Informatics - Category: Information Technology Source Type: research