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Critical care medicine · Jan 2023
Accuracy of a Risk Alert Threshold for ICU Hypoglycemia: Retrospective Analysis of Alert Performance and Association With Clinical Deterioration Events.
- William B Horton, Elaine E Hannah, Frances L Morales, Cherie R Chaney, Katy N Krahn, Pavel Chernyavskiy, Matthew T Clark, and J Randall Moorman.
- Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA.
- Crit. Care Med. 2023 Jan 1; 51 (1): 136140136-140.
ObjectivesTo quantify the accuracy of and clinical events associated with a risk alert threshold for impending hypoglycemia during ICU admissions.DesignRetrospective electronic health record review of clinical events occurring greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to 12 hours after the hypoglycemia risk alert threshold was met.SettingAdult ICU admissions from June 2020 through April 2021 at the University of Virginia Medical Center.PatientsThree hundred forty-two critically ill adults that were 63.5% male with median age 60.8 years, median weight 79.1 kg, and median body mass index of 27.5 kg/m2.InterventionsReal-world testing of our validated predictive model as a clinical decision support tool for ICU hypoglycemia.Measurements And Main ResultsWe retrospectively reviewed 350 hypothetical alerts that met inclusion criteria for analysis. The alerts correctly predicted 48 cases of level 1 hypoglycemia that occurred greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to 12 hours after the alert threshold was met (positive predictive value = 13.7%). Twenty-one of these 48 cases (43.8%) involved level 2 hypoglycemia. Notably, three myocardial infarctions, one medical emergency team call, 19 deaths, and 20 arrhythmias occurred greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to 12 hours after an alert threshold was met.ConclusionsAlerts generated by a validated ICU hypoglycemia prediction model had a positive predictive value of 13.7% for real-world hypoglycemia events. This proof-of-concept result suggests that the predictive model offers clinical value, but further prospective testing is needed to confirm this.Copyright © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.
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