Clinical Score Usefulness and EHR Integration (ScoreInt)

Mayo Clinic

Status: Completed

Conditions: Sepsis

Treatments: Other: Automated SOFA scoring calculator

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02755025

15-009228

Details and patient eligibility

About

The SOFA score is a severity of illness and prognostic score used in the ICU. It has also recently been adopted as part of the definition of sepsis. This study will prospectively evaluate the usability of automated SOFA scoring for ICU patients within an electronic patient monitoring dashboard. It will also assess for changes in physician ordering (volume and types of orders) after automatic scoring is implemented.

Enrollment: 215 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients admitted to the medical intensive care unit within 2 months of automated SOFA scoring module activation.

Exclusion criteria

• Refusal to allow medical records to be used for clinical research.

Trial design

215 participants in 1 patient group

Prospective cohort

Description:

This group will include ICU patients for the two month period after the automated SOFA score has been activated within the electronic patient care dashboard.

Treatment:

Other: Automated SOFA scoring calculator