Clinical Score Usefulness and EHR Integration
Completed
- Conditions
- Sepsis
- Interventions
- Other: Automated SOFA scoring calculator
- Registration Number
- NCT02755025
- Lead Sponsor
- Mayo Clinic
- Brief Summary
The SOFA score is a severity of illness and prognostic score used in the ICU. It has also recently been adopted as part of the definition of sepsis. This study will prospectively evaluate the usability of automated SOFA scoring for ICU patients within an electronic patient monitoring dashboard. It will also assess for changes in physician ordering (volume and types of orders) after automatic scoring is implemented.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 215
Inclusion Criteria
- Patients admitted to the medical intensive care unit within 2 months of automated SOFA scoring module activation.
Exclusion Criteria
- Refusal to allow medical records to be used for clinical research.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- OBSERVATIONAL
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Prospective cohort Automated SOFA scoring calculator This group will include ICU patients for the two month period after the automated SOFA score has been activated within the electronic patient care dashboard.
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method SOFA related laboratory order volume 2 months The total number of SOFA related laboratory orders on all patients in the ICU during the intervention period
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Module usability 2 months Providers will be surveyed on the usability of the automated scoring module