About this trial
This study is designed to test two new risk scores - one designed to predict a patient's four-hour risk of developing sepsis and one designed to predict a patient's four-hour risk of deterioration (cardiac arrest, death, unplanned ICU transfer, or rapid response team call). The goal of this study is to improve provider awareness of a patient's risk of these two negative outcomes by providing them with new risk scores. The primary outcome will be the time from when the risk score becomes elevated to when vital signs such as heart rate or blood pressure are measured, suggesting an increased awareness.
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
Units are part of a member hospital of the University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS)
Units treat inpatient patients
Units agree to participate in the study
Encounter is on a participating inpatient unit
Disqualifiers
Unit treats exclusively outpatients or is located in an outpatient setting
Unit treats primarily or exclusively pediatric patients (patients under the age of 18 years old)
Unit treats exclusively psychiatric patients
Encounter is with OB for a normal delivery and the patient has yet to give birth. This encounter can become eligible once the patient has given birth.
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- SEPSys
- RESCUE