Evaluating a Sepsis Screening Tool in the Outpatient Setting
The initial BPA alert resulted in 253 of 275 (92%) false-positive sepsis alerts. To improve accuracy, the heart rate threshold was adjusted from greater than 90 beats per minute to greater than 100 beats per minute. This adjustment reduced false positives by nearly 50%, improving specificity for identifying at-risk patients while maintaining effective detection of true sepsis cases.
Authors
- Helen Evers-Hunt
- Aanand Dinkar Naik (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6936-7984)
- Adam Binder (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8101-6335)
- A. A. Miles (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1466-5826)
- Claudia Thomas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6426-5890)
- Roseanne Dimarco
- A. A. J. Donnelly
- Bridget Deveney
- Noelle Fala
Institutions
- Miles College (US)
- Rosneft (Russia) (RU)
- The Football Association (GB)
- Donnelly College (US)
- Alcohol Drug Mental Health Board of Franklin County (US)
- Alexandra Hospital (GB)
- Helen Hayes Hospital (US)
- Bridge Pharma (United States) (US)
- Alexandra Institute (Denmark) (DK)
- Thomas University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Clinical journal of oncology nursing
- Published
- 2025-08-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1188/25.cjon.297-302
- Primary Topic
- Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00