Publications by authors named "Abhinab Kc"
Article Synopsis
- Researchers aimed to create an electronic tool to better identify when hospitalized patients are deteriorating clinically, predicting short-term mortality more effectively than current methods.!
- Using data from a twelve-hospital system, they analyzed records of adult patients from 2018 to 2022 to establish a new definition of clinical deterioration based on critical events like respiratory failure and hypotension.!
- The new definition significantly increased the likelihood of detecting deterioration 2.5 hours earlier before ICU transfer and showed a strong correlation with higher mortality rates and longer hospital stays. !
Importance: The Deterioration Index (DTI), used by hospitals for predicting patient deterioration, has not been extensively validated externally, raising concerns about performance and equitable predictions.
Objective: To locally validate DTI performance and assess its potential for bias in predicting patient clinical deterioration.
Design, Setting, And Participants: This retrospective prognostic study included 13 737 patients admitted to 8 heterogenous Midwestern US hospitals varying in size and type, including academic, community, urban, and rural hospitals.