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EHRs Can Help Find Patients At High Risk Of Dying

June 2, 2016

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Much of the discussion around EMRs and EHRs these days focuses on achieving broad, long-term goals such as improved population health. But here’s some data suggesting that these systems can serve a far more immediate purpose – finding inpatients at imminent risk of death.

A study appearing in The American Journal of Medicine details how researchers from Arizona-based Banner Health created an algorithm looking for key indicators suggesting that patients were in immediate danger of death. It was set up to send an alert when patients met at least two of four systemic inflammatory response syndrome criteria, plus at least one over 14 acute organ dysfunction parameters.

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