ArticleJournal of medical systems2017
Effect of a Real-Time Electronic Dashboard on a Rapid Response System.
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- Toward a Learning Health Care System: A Systematic Review and Evidence-Based Conceptual Framework for Implementation of Clinical Analytics in a Digital Hospital.Applied clinical informatics · 2022Pooled it
- Novel displays of patient information in critical care settings: a systematic review.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2019Pooled it
- Clinical and economic impact of digital dashboards on hospital inpatient care: a systematic review.JAMIA open · 2025Review
- Development, Implementation, and Evaluation Methods for Dashboards in Health Care: Scoping Review.JMIR medical informatics · 2024Article
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- Information displays for automated surveillance algorithms of in-hospital patient deterioration: a scoping review.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2023Article
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- Behavioral Health Decision Support Systems and User Interface Design in the Emergency Department.Applied clinical informatics · 2023Article
- An Electronic Dashboard to Improve Dosing of Hydroxychloroquine Within the Veterans Health Care System: Time Series Analysis.JMIR medical informatics · 2023Article
- Incorporating a real-time automatic alerting system based on electronic medical records could improve rapid response systems: a retrospective cohort study.Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine · 2021Article
- A Dashboard for Tracking Mortality After Cardiac Surgery Using a National Administrative Database.Cardiology research · 2021Article
- "How did you get to this number?" Stakeholder needs for implementing predictive analytics: a pre-implementation qualitative study.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2020Article
- Usability Testing of an Interactive Dashboard for Surgical Quality Improvement in a Large Congenital Heart Center.Applied clinical informatics · 2019Article
- Rapid response systems.Resuscitation · 2018Review
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Abstract
A rapid response system (RRS) may have limited effectiveness when inpatient providers fail to recognize signs of early patient decompensation. We evaluated the impact of an electronic medical record (EMR)-based alerting dashboard on outcomes associated with RRS activation. We used a repeated treatment study in which the dashboard display was successively turned on and off each week for ten 2-week cycles over a 20-week period on the inpatient acute care wards of an academic medical center. The Rapid Response Team (RRT) dashboard displayed all hospital patients in a single view ranked by severity score, updated in real time. The dashboard could be seen within the EMR by any provider, including RRT members. The primary outcomes were the incidence rate ratio (IRR) of all RRT activations, unexpected ICU transfers, cardiopulmonary arrests and deaths on general medical-surgical wards (wards). We conducted an exploratory analysis of first RRT activations. There were 6736 eligible admissions during the 20-week study period. There was no change in overall RRT activations (IRR = 1.14, p = 0.07), but a significant increase in first RRT activations (IRR = 1.20, p = 0.04). There were no significant differences in unexpected ICU transfers (IRR = 1.15, p = 0.25), cardiopulmonary arrests on general wards (IRR = 1.46, p = 0.43), or deaths on general wards (IRR = 0.96, p = 0.89). The introduction of the RRT dashboard was associated with increased initial RRT activations but not overall activations, unexpected ICU transfers, cardiopulmonary arrests, or death. The RRT dashboard is a novel tool to help providers recognize patient decompensation and may improve initial RRT notification.
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