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Goldberg HS, Paterno MD, Grundmeier RW, Rocha BH, Hoffman JM, Tham E, Swietlik M, Schaeffer MH, Pabbathi D, Deakyne SJ, Kuppermann N, Dayan PS. Int. J. Med. Inform. 2016; 87: 101-110.

Affiliation

Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2015.12.002

PMID

26806717

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the architecture, integration requirements, and execution characteristics of a remote clinical decision support (CDS) service used in a multicenter clinical trial. The trial tested the efficacy of implementing brain injury prediction rules for children with minor blunt head trauma.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: We integrated the Epic(®) electronic health record (EHR) with the Enterprise Clinical Rules Service (ECRS), a web-based CDS service, at two emergency departments. Patterns of CDS review included either a delayed, near-real-time review, where the physician viewed CDS recommendations generated by the nursing assessment, or a real-time review, where the physician viewed recommendations generated by their own documentation. A backstopping, vendor-based CDS triggered with zero delay when no recommendation was available in the EHR from the web-service. We assessed the execution characteristics of the integrated system and the source of the generated recommendations viewed by physicians.

RESULTS: The ECRS mean execution time was 0.74 ±0.72s. Overall execution time was substantially different at the two sites, with mean total transaction times of 19.67 and 3.99s. Of 1930 analyzed transactions from the two sites, 60% (310/521) of all physician documentation-initiated recommendations and 99% (1390/1409) of all nurse documentation-initiated recommendations originated from the remote web service.

DISCUSSION: The remote CDS system was the source of recommendations in more than half of the real-time cases and virtually all the near-real-time cases. Comparisons are limited by allowable variation in user workflow and resolution of the EHR clock.

CONCLUSION: With maturation and adoption of standards for CDS services, remote CDS shows promise to decrease time-to-trial for multicenter evaluations of candidate decision support interventions.


Language: en

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