Study of an Electronic Health Record-embedded Severe Sepsis Early Warning Alert
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Official title
Single-blind Randomized Trial of a Commercially Sold Electronic Health Record Based Severe Sepsis Early Warning Best Practice Alert.
Brief summary
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The investigators hypothesize that implementing an electronic health record-based early warning system for severe infections (severe sepsis) will decrease the time to antibiotic order. The study will consist of an algorithm which will monitor lab values, vital signs, and nursing documentation for signs of severe sepsis. When these criteria are met, an alert will be delivered via the electronic health record to a nurse and doctor and simultaneously an alert via pager to another nurse. The investigators plan to randomize which patients will generate these alerts and analyze the data after collecting information for approximately 6 months which will be sufficient to detect a 10% difference in the two patient groups.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT02376842
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 1,149 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Interventions
- Severe sepsis early warning best practice alert Behavioral
- Standard care Behavioral
Behavioral
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
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Study timeline
- Start date
- Oct 31, 2014
- Primary completion
- Feb 28, 2015
- Completion
- Feb 28, 2015
- Last update posted
- Nov 16, 2015
2014 – 2015
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 1
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stanford Hospital | Stanford | California | 94305 | — |
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