To catch a killer: Electronic sepsis alert tools reaching a fever pitch?

BMJ Quality and Safety

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2019, Pages 693-696

  Ruppel, Halley ^a   Liu, Vincent ^a  

^a DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

alert; clinical decision support; machine learning; predictive model; sepsis

Indexed keywords

ALERT FATIGUE (HEALTH CARE); AWARENESS; CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; CLINICAL OUTCOME; COMPUTER MODEL; EDITORIAL; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; FEVER; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMAN; MACHINE LEARNING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PUBLIC HEALTH CAMPAIGN; SEPSIS; SEQUENTIAL ORGAN FAILURE ASSESSMENT SCORE; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FEVER; HUMANS; SEPSIS;

EID: 85065296172     PISSN: 20445415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjqs-2019-009463     Document Type: Editorial

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