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ArticleApplied clinical informatics2023

Improving Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Discharge Timeliness of Infants with Bronchiolitis Using Clinical Decision Support.

Blake Martin, Brendan Mulhern, Melissa Majors, Elise Rolison, Tiffany McCombs, Grant Smith, Colin Fisher, Elizabeth Diaz, Dana Downen, Mark Brittan

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Article in Applied clinical informatics, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Blake MartinDepartment of Pediatrics, Section of Critical Care, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States.
Brendan MulhernDepartment of Pediatrics, Section of Hospital Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States.
Melissa MajorsDepartment of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, United States.
Elise RolisonDepartment of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, United States.
Tiffany McCombsDepartment of Pediatrics, Section of Critical Care, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States.
Grant SmithDepartment of Pediatrics, Section of Hospital Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States.
Colin FisherDepartment of Pediatrics, Section of Hospital Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States.
Elizabeth DiazDepartment of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, United States.
Dana DownenDepartment of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, United States.
Mark BrittanDepartment of Pediatrics, Section of Hospital Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States.
Children's Hospital Colorado · USUniversity of Colorado Hospital · USUniversity of Colorado Denver · US

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Abstract

backgroundIdentifying children ready for transfer out of the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) is an area that may benefit from clinical decision support (CDS). We previously implemented a quality improvement (QI) initiative to accelerate the transfer evaluation of non-medically complex PICU patients with viral bronchiolitis receiving floor-appropriate respiratory support.

objectivesDesign a CDS tool adaptation of this QI initiative to further accelerate transfer evaluation of appropriate patients.

methodsThe original initiative focused on identifying for transfer evaluation otherwise healthy children admitted to the PICU with bronchiolitis who had been receiving floor-appropriate levels of respiratory support for at least 6 hours. However, this initiative required that clinicians manually track the respiratory support of qualifying patients. We designed an electronic health record (EHR)-based CDS tool to automate identification of transfer-ready candidates. The tool parses EHR data to identify children meeting prior QI initiative criteria and alerts clinicians to assess transfer readiness once a child has been receiving floor-appropriate respiratory support for 6 hours. We compared time from reaching floor-appropriate support to placement of the transfer order ("time-to-transfer"), PICU length of stay (LOS), and hospital LOS between patients admitted prior to our QI initiative (December 1, 2018-October 19, 2019, "pre-QI phase"), during the initiative but before CDS tool implementation (October 20, 2019-February 7, 2022, "QI phase"), and after CDS implementation (February 8-November 11, 2022, "CDS phase").

resultsCDS-phase patients (

conclusionAn EHR-based CDS adaptation of a prior QI initiative facilitated timely identification of PICU patients with bronchiolitis ready for transfer evaluation. Such tools might allow PICU clinicians to focus on other high-acuity tasks while accelerating transfer evaluation of appropriate patients.

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BronchiolitisDecision Support Systems, ClinicalIntensive Care Units, PediatricPatient DischargeChildHospitalizationHumansInfantLength of StayRetrospective Studies

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PMID36792057
PMCPMC10191735
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