A 3-Staged Approach to Identifying Patients at Risk of Deterioration in Emergency Departments

Thomas Schmidt, Uffe K. Wiil

2015

Abstract

The variety in patient demographics and admission reasons makes it challenging for Emergency Department clinicians to notice deterioration in patients. Recent research has found that up to 20% of non-critical patients deteriorate within the first 24 hours after admission. Unnoticed patient deterioration can lead to serious adverse events in a clinical setting where patient monitoring relies solely on manual observations of monitors at infrequent intervals. In this paper, we present a novel 3-Stage Patient Deterioration Warning System as a model to mitigate the risk of undetected deterioration while improving clinical alarm fatigue. This staged approach enables the monitoring of patients in levels of increasing descriptiveness based on multiple models of normality. The model is validated via related work, clinical observations, and patterns of patient data collected at a Danish Emergency Department bedside ward. The paper concludes with a presentation of plans for future implementation work.

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Schmidt T. and Wiil U. (2015). A 3-Staged Approach to Identifying Patients at Risk of Deterioration in Emergency Departments . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2015) ISBN 978-989-758-068-0, pages 470-477. DOI: 10.5220/0005226004700477


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@conference{healthinf15,
author={Thomas Schmidt and Uffe K. Wiil},
title={A 3-Staged Approach to Identifying Patients at Risk of Deterioration in Emergency Departments},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2015)},
year={2015},
pages={470-477},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005226004700477},
isbn={978-989-758-068-0},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2015)
TI - A 3-Staged Approach to Identifying Patients at Risk of Deterioration in Emergency Departments
SN - 978-989-758-068-0
AU - Schmidt T.
AU - Wiil U.
PY - 2015
SP - 470
EP - 477
DO - 10.5220/0005226004700477