COVID-19-associated Sepsis: Incidence and Mortality

COVID-19-associated Sepsis: Incidence and Mortality

In this retrospective cohort study of hospitalized adults, SARS-CoV-2 accounted for approximately 1 in 6 cases of sepsis during the first 33 months of the COVID-19 pandemic. In-hospital mortality rates for SARS-CoV-2–associated... read more

Overlooked bias with thermometer evaluations using quickly retaken temperatures in EHR

Overlooked bias with thermometer evaluations using quickly retaken temperatures in EHR

Studies related to COVID-19 increasingly use electronic health records (EHR) to obtain large-scale evidence. However, EHR-based research must be performed with care because it can involve new study design problems that are... read more

Machine Learning for Patient Risk Stratification for ARDS

Machine Learning for Patient Risk Stratification for ARDS

An acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) prediction model based on electronic health record (EHR) data with good discriminative performance has been developed. The results demonstrate the feasibility of a machine... read more

3 Tools Doctors Can Use to Prevent Burnout

3 Tools Doctors Can Use to Prevent Burnout

A broad-based study published in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings in 2015 using the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) found that 54.4 percent of all physicians combined were experiencing at least one symptom of burnout, and there... read more

Design and Implementation of a Pediatric ICU Acuity Scoring Tool as Clinical Decision Support

Design and Implementation of a Pediatric ICU Acuity Scoring Tool as Clinical Decision Support

Pediatric in-hospital cardiac arrest most commonly occurs in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) and is frequently preceded by early warning signs of clinical deterioration. In this study, we describe the implementation... read more

Penn Medicine Shortens ICU Stays with Real-time Data

Penn Medicine Shortens ICU Stays with Real-time Data

Leveraging real-time data streams from its EHR platform, Penn Medicine has created a dashboard and alerting system to speed the process of getting ICU patients breathing on their own. Many patients in hospital intensive care... read more

Enhancing Delirium Case Definitions in Electronic Health Records

Enhancing Delirium Case Definitions in Electronic Health Records

Delirium is an acute confusional state, associated with morbidity and mortality in diverse medically ill populations. Delirium may be better captured by composite outcomes, including both administrative claims data and elements... read more

Doctors frustrated that electronic records steal time from patients

Doctors frustrated that electronic records steal time from patients

Researchers asked doctors licensed to practice in Rhode Island the question: How does using an EHR affect your interaction with patients? They got an earful. Most who responded complained that electronic records undermined... read more

Physicians Say 2 Hours a Day Spent on Digital Records

Physicians Say 2 Hours a Day Spent on Digital Records

Clinicians are spending nearly two hours working on electronic health records (EHRs) for every hour they spend with a patient.... read more