Automated electronic medical record sepsis detection in the emergency department

PeerJ

Volumn 2014, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Nguyen, Su Q ^a,c   Mwakalindile, Edwin ^a,d   Booth, James S ^a   Hogan, Vicki ^b   Morgan, Jordan ^a   Prickett, Charles T ^a   Donnelly, John P ^a   Wang, Henry E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c CHRISTUS Spohn Memorial Hospital   (United States)

^d FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Automated alerts; Automation; Predictive value; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PNEUMONIA; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

EID: 84899074550     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.343     Document Type: Article

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