Paper Info
Title
The Stelar Icu: Leveraging Electronic Health Record Data To Foster Research And Optimize Patient Care
Abstract
Electronic health records (EHR) combined with robust data collection systems can be used to simultaneously drive research and performance improvement initiatives. Our Smart, Transformative, EHR-based Approaches to Revolutionizing the Intensive Care Unit (STELAR ICU) consists of a framework of five best practices that make optimal use of objective data to guide clinicians caring for the sickest patients in our quaternary center. Our strategy has relied on an accessible data infrastructure, standardizing without protocolizing care, using technology to increase patient contact and time spent at the bedside, continuously re-evaluating performance in real-time, and acknowledging uncertainty by using electronic data to provide probabilistic weight to clinical decision-making. These strategies blur the lines between research and quality improvement, with the aim of achieving truly stellar patient outcomes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.3390/informatics5030037
INFORMATICS-BASEL
Keywords
DocType
Volume
learning health system, electronic health records, performance improvement, standardization, guidelines, pediatric critical care
Journal
5
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
2227-9709
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Christopher M. Horvat100.34
Suresh Srinivasan2278.47
Robert S. B. Clark300.34