| Literature DB >> 22944172 |
Milos Hauskrecht1, Iyad Batal, Michal Valko, Shyam Visweswaran, Gregory F Cooper, Gilles Clermont.
Abstract
We develop and evaluate a data-driven approach for detecting unusual (anomalous) patient-management decisions using past patient cases stored in electronic health records (EHRs). Our hypothesis is that a patient-management decision that is unusual with respect to past patient care may be due to an error and that it is worthwhile to generate an alert if such a decision is encountered. We evaluate this hypothesis using data obtained from EHRs of 4486 post-cardiac surgical patients and a subset of 222 alerts generated from the data. We base the evaluation on the opinions of a panel of experts. The results of the study support our hypothesis that the outlier-based alerting can lead to promising true alert rates. We observed true alert rates that ranged from 25% to 66% for a variety of patient-management actions, with 66% corresponding to the strongest outliers.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 22944172 PMCID: PMC3567774 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2012.08.004
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Biomed Inform ISSN: 1532-0464 Impact factor: 6.317