Pediatric anesthesia & critical care
Development and Evaluation of an Electronic Health Record‐Generated Clinical Coverage Scoring System Compared to Human Decision‐Making in Pediatric Surgical Patients: A Single Center Experience
Authors' conclusion
EHR-generated clinical coverage scores can reliably replace manual reviews of high-acuity, complex pediatric surgical patients.
Study context
- Population
- Pediatric surgical cases in a quaternary children's hospital, April 7-September 8, 2023
- Participants
- 10,761 pediatric surgical cases
- Comparison
- Automated system vs Manual identification
- Outcome
- Accuracy in identifying high-acuity, complex cases (sensitivity, specificity, PPV, NPV, accuracy, F-1 score)
Methodological detailsquality improvement project, single-centre
- Quality improvement project
- Single-centre
Performance
As reported in the abstract
Identification of high-acuity, complex cases
- Sensitivity of automated scoring vs manual identification, end of study period
- 95.86% (94.48%-97.24%)
- Specificity
- 99.84% (99.71%-99.98%)
- PPV
- 99.35% (98.78%-99.92%)
- NPV
- 98.97% (98.62%-99.32%)
- Accuracy
- 99.04% (98.62%-99.47%)
Further findings
Most impactful interventions
- Removing canceled cases and adding procedure codes to the rules for automated scores
Original publication
Development and Evaluation of an Electronic Health Record‐Generated Clinical Coverage Scoring System Compared to Human Decision‐Making in Pediatric Surgical Patients: A Single Center Experience. Paediatr Anaesth. Published 2 April 2025. doi:10.
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