| [PMID]: | 29281665 |
| [Au] Autor: | Bergmeir C; Bilgrami I; Bain C; Webb GI; Orosz J; Pilcher D |
| [Ad] Endereço: | Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Clayton, Australia. |
| [Ti] Título: | Designing a more efficient, effective and safe Medical Emergency Team (MET) service using data analysis. |
| [So] Source: | PLoS One;12(12):e0188688, 2017. |
| [Is] ISSN: | 1932-6203 |
| [Cp] País de publicação: | United States |
| [La] Idioma: | eng |
| [Ab] Resumo: | INTRODUCTION: Hospitals have seen a rise in Medical Emergency Team (MET) reviews. We hypothesised that the commonest MET calls result in similar treatments. Our aim was to design a pre-emptive management algorithm that allowed direct institution of treatment to patients without having to wait for attendance of the MET team and to model its potential impact on MET call incidence and patient outcomes. METHODS: Data was extracted for all MET calls from the hospital database. Association rule data mining techniques were used to identify the most common combinations of MET call causes, outcomes and therapies. RESULTS: There were 13,656 MET calls during the 34-month study period in 7936 patients. The most common MET call was for hypotension [31%, (2459/7936)]. These MET calls were strongly associated with the immediate administration of intra-venous fluid (70% [1714/2459] v 13% [739/5477] p<0.001), unless the patient was located on a respiratory ward (adjusted OR 0.41 [95%CI 0.25-0.67] p<0.001), had a cardiac cause for admission (adjusted OR 0.61 [95%CI 0.50-0.75] p<0.001) or was under the care of the heart failure team (adjusted OR 0.29 [95%CI 0.19-0.42] p<0.001). Modelling the effect of a pre-emptive management algorithm for immediate fluid administration without MET activation on data from a test period of 24 months following the study period, suggested it would lead to a 68.7% (2541/3697) reduction in MET calls for hypotension and a 19.6% (2541/12938) reduction in total METs without adverse effects on patients. CONCLUSION: Routinely collected data and analytic techniques can be used to develop a pre-emptive management algorithm to administer intravenous fluid therapy to a specific group of hypotensive patients without the need to initiate a MET call. This could both lead to earlier treatment for the patient and less total MET calls. |
| [Mh] Termos MeSH primário: |
Eficiência Organizacional
Serviço Hospitalar de Emergência/organização & administração
Equipe de Respostas Rápidas de Hospitais/organização & administração
Segurança do Paciente
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| [Mh] Termos MeSH secundário: |
Algoritmos
Interpretação Estatística de Dados
Doença/classificação
Seres Humanos
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| [Pt] Tipo de publicação: | JOURNAL ARTICLE; RESEARCH SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T |
| [Em] Mês de entrada: | 1801 |
| [Cu] Atualização por classe: | 180129 |
[Lr] Data última revisão:
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| [Sb] Subgrupo de revista: | IM |
| [Da] Data de entrada para processamento: | 171228 |
| [St] Status: | MEDLINE |
| [do] DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0188688 |
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