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Using expert rules to automate pressure ulcer alerts for the clinical nurse specialist.

Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings / AMIA Symposium. AMIA Symposium 02/2008; pp.1154
Source: PubMed

ABSTRACT Hospital acquired pressure ulcers are the focus of national attention. We report on a decision support system that notifies clinical nurse specialists of patients with pressure ulcers or risk for developing pressure ulcers. Auto-summed pressure ulcer risk and pressure ulcer occurrence data are embedded in nursing flowsheets, while the expert system technology runs in a separate application and sends a message back to the EMR environment; a system is successfully implemented across 60 inpatient units.

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Keywords

60 inpatient units
 
decision support system
 
EMR environment
 
expert system technology runs
 
nursing flowsheets
 
pressure ulcer occurrence data
 
pressure ulcers
 

Jane A Timm