Clinical Decision Support and Benefits of Early Warning Scoring Systems

Webinar: Wednesday, January 25th at 12:00 p.m. (EST)

This is the second presentation in the ongoing series on Clinical Decision support hosted by Philips Healthcare CMIO, Joseph Frassica, MD.

Deteriorating ward patients are at increased risk. Electronic automated advisory vital signs monitors using an early warning score system may help identify such patients and improve their outcomes. Philips researchers studied 18305 patients in 349 beds and 12 general wards in 10 hospitals in the USA, Europe and Australia, using a Before-and-after controlled trial design. They deployed electronic automated advisory vital signs monitors to assist in the acquisition of vital signs and calculation of early warning scores (EWS) and assessed their effect on frequency, type, and treatment of rapid response team (RRT) calls; survival to hospital discharge or to 90 days for RRT call patients; overall type and number of serious adverse events (SAEs) and length of hospital stay (LOS).

Speaker

Prof. Rinaldo Bellomo, MBBS, MD, FRACP, FCICM, is Professor of Medicine at Melbourne University, Honorary Professor of Medicine at Monash University, Melbourne and Sydney University, Australia. He is Staff Specialist in Intensive Care and Director of Intensive Care Research at the Austin Hospital, Melbourne, Founding Chair of the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group and Co-director of the ANZIC Research Centre. He has published more than 600 scientific papers, 100 book chapters, and edited 13 books. He has been married to Debbie for 23 years and they have an 18 year-old daughter, Hilary.