Clinical Surveillance
The Actionable Benefits of Objective Medical Device Data for Critical Decision-Making
John Zaleski
- 174 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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Clinical Surveillance
The Actionable Benefits of Objective Medical Device Data for Critical Decision-Making
John Zaleski
About This Book
For more than a decade, the focus of information technology has been on capturing and sharing data from a patient within an all-encompassing record (a.k.a. the electronic health record, EHR), to promote improved longitudinal oversight in the care of the patient. There are both those who agree and those who disagree as to whether this goal has been met, but it is certainly evolving. A key element to improved patient care has been the automated capture of data from durable medical devices that are the source of (mostly) objective data, from imagery to time-series histories of vital signs and spot-assessments of patients.
The capture and use of these data to support clinical workflows have been written about and thoroughly debated. Yet, the use of these data for clinical guidance has been the subject of various papers published in respected medical journals, but without a coherent focus on the general subject of the clinically actionable benefits of objective medical device data for clinical decision-making purposes. Hence, the uniqueness of this book is in providing a single point-of-capture for the targeted clinical benefits of medical device data--both electronic- health-record-based and real-time--for improved clinical decision-making at the point of care, and for the use of these data to address and assess specific types of clinical surveillance.
Clinical Surveillance: The Actionable Benefits of Objective Medical Device Data for Crucial Decision-Making focuses on the use of objective, continuously collected medical device data for the purpose of identifying patient deterioration, with a primary focus on those data normally obtained from both the higher-acuity care settings in intensive care units and the lower-acuity settings of general care wards. It includes examples of conditions that demonstrate earlier signs of deterioration including systemic inflammatory response syndrome, opioid-induced respiratory depression, shock induced by systemic failure, and more. The book provides education on how to use these data, such as for clinical interventions, in order to identify examples of how to guide care using automated durable medical device data from higher- and lower-acuity care settings. The book also includes real-world examples of applications that are of high value to clinical end-users and health systems.
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Chapter 1
Introduction to Clinical Surveillance
1.1 Patient Safety and Clinical Surveillance
Item number | Patient safety concern |
6 | āFailure to detect changes in a patientās condition ā¦across the continuum of careā in which āinadequately trained staffā can fail to respond or rescue a patient in sufficient time. |
8 | Early detection of sepsis in order to āfacilitate timely diagnosis and managementā of these patients for the reason of identifying adverse events early and providing the means to treat a patient as soon as possible. |
10 | Systemic improvements and standardization of patient safety in large and diverse healthcare systems āā¦to institute structures that effectively allow patient safety priorities ā¦ help the organization reduce inconsistencies and embed a strong focus o... |
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Preface
- Acronyms
- 1 Introduction to Clinical Surveillance
- 2 Use of Patient Care Device Data for Clinical Surveillance
- 3 Alarms and Clinical Surveillance
- 4 Mathematical Techniques Applied to Clinical Surveillance
- 5 Clinical Workflows Supported by Patient Care Device Data
- Epilogue: Lessons Learned from Continuous Monitoring
- Bibliography
- Index