Development of an Electronic Clinical Surveillance Measure for Unnecessary Rapid Antibiotic Administration in Suspected Sepsis
We developed a novel, valid EHR metric for clinical surveillance of sepsis overtreatment. Applying this metric to a large cohort of potential sepsis patients revealed a high rate of overtreatment and provides a useful tool to inform sepsis quality-improvement targets.
Authors
- Marc A. Kowalkowski (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2624-4209)
- Kevin W. Gibbs (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5272-2289)
- Stephanie Parks Taylor (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6163-9666)
- Shih‐Hsiung Chou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5414-1958)
- Jessica A. Palakshappa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6333-365X)
- Jessie King (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3468-3394)
- Nikhil Patel
Institutions
- University of Michigan (US)
- Atrium Medical Cente (US)
- Wake Forest University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Published
- 2024-10-03
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciae445
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Healthcare cost, quality, practices
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.85
Funders
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality