Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
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J Am Med Inform Assoc · Feb 2020
Evaluating a digital sepsis alert in a London multisite hospital network: a natural experiment using electronic health record data.
The study sought to determine the impact of a digital sepsis alert on patient outcomes in a UK multisite hospital network. ⋯ These findings strongly suggest that the introduction of a network-wide digital sepsis alert is associated with improvements in patient outcomes, demonstrating that digital based interventions can be successfully introduced and readily evaluated.