Prospective trial of real-time electronic surveillance to expedite early care of severe sepsis

JL Nelson, BL Smith, JD Jared, JG Younger - Annals of emergency …, 2011 - Elsevier
STUDY OBJECTIVE: An automated, real-time electronic medical record query and caregiver
notification system was developed and examined for its utility in improving sepsis care. We
hypothesize that the algorithm will increase the rate and timeliness of sampling of blood
lactate and blood cultures, performance of chest radiography, and provision of antibiotics.
METHODS: A before-and-after, prospective study with consecutive enrollment examined an
algorithm that automatically identified adult patients accumulating 2 or more systemic …
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