Background: The original goal of progress notes is to provide a concise, up-to-date reflection of the patient’s condition and the provider’s thought processes. Electronic health records (EHRs) allow physicians to supplement traditional manual data entry [...]
Background: Accurate problem lists linked to the electronic medical record (EMR) can be a source of structured clinical data useful for communication among clinicians for patient care, clinical decision support design, and EMR phenotyping. Nevertheless, [...]
Background: Sepsis is a leading cause of mortality among hospitalized patients. Early detection and intervention reduces sepsis-related mortality. We implemented a novel early warning system (EWS 2.0) based on a machine-learning algorithm to prospectively identify [...]
Background: Sepsis is a leading cause of death among hospitalized patients. Early detection of sepsis has the potential to reduce mortality by facilitating timely evidence-based interventions. Past studies have used electronic health records (EHR) to [...]