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  1. Article ; Online: Automated analysis of unstructured clinical assessments improves emergency department triage performance: A retrospective deep learning analysis.

    Sax, Dana R / Warton, E Margaret / Sofrygin, Oleg / Mark, Dustin G / Ballard, Dustin W / Kene, Mamata V / Vinson, David R / Reed, Mary E

    Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open

    2023  Volume 4, Issue 4, Page(s) e13003

    Abstract: Objectives: Efficient and accurate emergency department (ED) triage is critical to prioritize the sickest patients and manage department flow. We explored the use of electronic health record data and advanced predictive analytics to improve triage ... ...

    Abstract Objectives: Efficient and accurate emergency department (ED) triage is critical to prioritize the sickest patients and manage department flow. We explored the use of electronic health record data and advanced predictive analytics to improve triage performance.
    Methods: Using a data set of over 5 million ED encounters of patients 18 years and older across 21 EDs from 2016 to 2020, we derived triage models using deep learning to predict 2 outcomes: hospitalization (primary outcome) and fast-track eligibility (exploratory outcome), defined as ED discharge with <2 resource types used (eg, laboratory or imaging studies) and no critical events (eg, resuscitative medications use or intensive care unit [ICU] admission). We report area under the receiver operator characteristic curve (AUC) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for models using (1) triage variables alone (demographics and vital signs), (2) triage nurse clinical assessment alone (unstructured notes), and (3) triage variables plus clinical assessment for each prediction target.
    Results: We found 12.7% of patients were hospitalized (
    Conclusion: Our findings highlight the potential to use advanced predictive analytics to accurately predict key ED triage outcomes. Predictive accuracy was optimized when clinical assessments were added to models using simple structured variables alone.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-07-12
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ISSN 2688-1152
    ISSN (online) 2688-1152
    DOI 10.1002/emp2.13003
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  2. Article ; Online: Patient and Visit Characteristics Associated With Physical Restraint Use in the Emergency Department.

    Walia, Harbir / Tucker, Lue-Yen S / Manickam, Raj N / Kene, Mamata V / Sharp, Adam L / Berdahl, Carl T / Hirschtritt, Matthew E

    The Permanente journal

    2022  Volume 27, Issue 1, Page(s) 94–102

    Abstract: Objective Physical restraints are used in emergency departments (EDs) to address behavioral emergencies in situations in which less restrictive methods have failed. The objective of this study was to evaluate for associations between patient/visit ... ...

    Abstract Objective Physical restraints are used in emergency departments (EDs) to address behavioral emergencies in situations in which less restrictive methods have failed. The objective of this study was to evaluate for associations between patient/visit characteristics and physical restraint use. Study Design This study was designed as a cross-sectional, retrospective study of all encounters at Kaiser Permanente Northern California EDs from January 1, 2016, to December 31, 2019, to evaluate differences in patient and visit characteristics between visits involving physical restraint use and those without. Methods Using electronic health record data, this study identified physical restraint use among ED encounters and extracted demographic, clinical, and facility characteristics. The authors calculated odds ratios for physical restraint placement, adjusting for patient and visit characteristics and accounting for within-patient clustering. Results Among 4,410,816 encounters (representing 1,791,673 patients), 6369 encounters (0.1%) involved physical restraint use among 5,554 patients (0.3%). Variables associated with the lowest odds of physical restraint included female sex, presentation to the ED in more recent years, and presence of intentional self-harm/suicidal ideation. Variables associated with the highest odds of physical restraint included higher visit acuity and weekend presentations to the ED. Discussion This study, which leveraged a large, diverse patient sample generalizable to the Northern California population, found several patient and visit characteristics associated with physical restraint use in the ED. Conclusion Results of this study may help identify patient groups and situational factors that are most likely to lead to physical restraint use and structural factors contributing to disparities in care, thereby informing interventions to reduce physical restraint use when possible.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Female ; Retrospective Studies ; Restraint, Physical ; Cross-Sectional Studies ; Suicidal Ideation ; Emergency Service, Hospital
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-12-04
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2062823-7
    ISSN 1552-5775 ; 1552-5775
    ISSN (online) 1552-5775
    ISSN 1552-5775
    DOI 10.7812/TPP/22.089
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  3. Article ; Online: An all-inclusive model for predicting invasive bacterial infection in febrile infants age 7-60 days.

    Ballard, Dustin W / Huang, Jie / Sharp, Adam L / Mark, Dustin G / Nguyen, Tran H P / Young, Beverly R / Vinson, David R / Van Winkle, Patrick / Kene, Mamata V / Rauchwerger, Adina S / Zhang, Jennifer Y / Park, Stacy J / Reed, Mary E / Greenhow, Tara L

    Pediatric research

    2024  

    Abstract: Background: Invasive bacterial infections (IBIs) in febrile infants are rare but potentially devastating. We aimed to derive and validate a predictive model for IBI among febrile infants age 7-60 days.: Methods: Data were abstracted retrospectively ... ...

    Abstract Background: Invasive bacterial infections (IBIs) in febrile infants are rare but potentially devastating. We aimed to derive and validate a predictive model for IBI among febrile infants age 7-60 days.
    Methods: Data were abstracted retrospectively from electronic records of 37 emergency departments (EDs) for infants with a measured temperature >=100.4 F who underwent an ED evaluation with blood and urine cultures. Models to predict IBI were developed and validated respectively using a random 80/20 dataset split, including 10-fold cross-validation. We used precision recall curves as the classification metric.
    Results: Of 4411 eligible infants with a mean age of 37 days, 29% had characteristics that would likely have excluded them from existing risk stratification protocols. There were 196 patients with IBI (4.4%), including 43 (1.0%) with bacterial meningitis. Analytic approaches varied in performance characteristics (precision recall range 0.04-0.29, area under the curve range 0.5-0.84), with the XGBoost model demonstrating the best performance (0.29, 0.84). The five most important variables were serum white blood count, maximum temperature, absolute neutrophil count, absolute band count, and age in days.
    Conclusion: A machine learning model (XGBoost) demonstrated the best performance in predicting a rare outcome among febrile infants, including those excluded from existing algorithms.
    Impact: Several models for the risk stratification of febrile infants have been developed. There is a need for a preferred comprehensive model free from limitations and algorithm exclusions that accurately predicts IBIs. This is the first study to derive an all-inclusive predictive model for febrile infants aged 7-60 days in a community ED sample with IBI as a primary outcome. This machine learning model demonstrates potential for clinical utility in predicting IBI.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-04-04
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 4411-8
    ISSN 1530-0447 ; 0031-3998
    ISSN (online) 1530-0447
    ISSN 0031-3998
    DOI 10.1038/s41390-024-03141-3
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  4. Article ; Online: World update.

    Kene, Mamata V

    Disaster medicine and public health preparedness

    2008  Volume 2, Issue 4, Page(s) 211–214

    MeSH term(s) Disaster Planning ; Disasters/statistics & numerical data ; Global Health ; Humans ; Hunger ; Malnutrition ; Public Health ; Public Health Practice ; Rape ; Violence
    Language English
    Publishing date 2008-12
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2375268-3
    ISSN 1938-744X ; 1935-7893
    ISSN (online) 1938-744X
    ISSN 1935-7893
    DOI 10.1097/DMP.0b013e31818d8373
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  5. Article ; Online: Evaluation of the Emergency Severity Index in US Emergency Departments for the Rate of Mistriage.

    Sax, Dana R / Warton, E Margaret / Mark, Dustin G / Vinson, David R / Kene, Mamata V / Ballard, Dustin W / Vitale, Tina J / McGaughey, Katherine R / Beardsley, Aaron / Pines, Jesse M / Reed, Mary E

    JAMA network open

    2023  Volume 6, Issue 3, Page(s) e233404

    Abstract: Importance: Accurate emergency department (ED) triage is essential to prioritize the most critically ill patients and distribute resources appropriately. The most used triage system in the US is the Emergency Severity Index (ESI).: Objectives: To ... ...

    Abstract Importance: Accurate emergency department (ED) triage is essential to prioritize the most critically ill patients and distribute resources appropriately. The most used triage system in the US is the Emergency Severity Index (ESI).
    Objectives: To derive and validate an algorithm to assess the rate of mistriage and to identify characteristics associated with mistriage.
    Design, setting, and participants: This retrospective cohort study created operational definitions for each ESI level that use ED visit electronic health record data to classify encounters as undertriaged, overtriaged, or correctly triaged. These definitions were applied to a retrospective cohort to assess variation in triage accuracy by facility and patient characteristics in 21 EDs within the Kaiser Permanente Northern California (KPNC) health care system. All ED encounters by patients 18 years and older between January 1, 2016, and December 31, 2020, were assessed for eligibility. Encounters with missing ESI or incomplete ED time variables and patients who left against medical advice or without being seen were excluded. Data were analyzed between January 1, 2021, and November 30, 2022.
    Exposures: Assigned ESI level.
    Main outcomes and measures: Rate of undertriage and overtriage by assigned ESI level based on a mistriage algorithm and patient and visit characteristics associated with undertriage and overtriage.
    Results: A total of 5 315 176 ED encounters were included. The mean (SD) patient age was 52 (21) years; 44.3% of patients were men and 55.7% were women. In terms of race and ethnicity, 11.1% of participants were Asian, 15.1% were Black, 21.4% were Hispanic, 44.0% were non-Hispanic White, and 8.5% were of other (includes American Indian or Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander, and multiple races or ethnicities), unknown, or missing race or ethnicity. Mistriage occurred in 1 713 260 encounters (32.2%), of which 176 131 (3.3%) were undertriaged and 1 537 129 (28.9%) were overtriaged. The sensitivity of ESI to identify a patient with high-acuity illness (correctly assigning ESI I or II among patients who had a life-stabilizing intervention) was 65.9%. In adjusted analyses, Black patients had a 4.6% (95% CI, 4.3%-4.9%) greater relative risk of overtriage and an 18.5% (95% CI, 16.9%-20.0%) greater relative risk of undertriage compared with White patients, while Black male patients had a 9.9% (95% CI, 9.8%-10.0%) greater relative risk of overtriage and a 41.0% (95% CI, 40.0%-41.9%) greater relative risk of undertriage compared with White female patients. High relative risk of undertriage was found among patients taking high-risk medications (30.3% [95% CI, 28.3%-32.4%]) and those with a greater comorbidity burden (22.4% [95% CI, 20.1%-24.4%]) and recent intensive care unit utilization (36.7% [95% CI, 30.5%-41.4%]).
    Conclusions and relevance: In this retrospective cohort study of over 5 million ED encounters, mistriage with ESI was common. Quality improvement should focus on limiting critical undertriage, optimizing resource allocation by patient need, and promoting equity.
    MeSH term(s) Female ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Emergency Service, Hospital ; Ethnicity ; Retrospective Studies ; Triage ; Adult ; Aged
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-03-01
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ISSN 2574-3805
    ISSN (online) 2574-3805
    DOI 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.3404
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  6. Article ; Online: Outcomes Following Possible Undiagnosed Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: A Contemporary Analysis.

    Mark, Dustin G / Kene, Mamata V / Vinson, David R / Ballard, Dustin W

    Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine

    2017  Volume 24, Issue 12, Page(s) 1451–1463

    Abstract: Objectives: Existing literature suggests that patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) and "sentinel" aSAH symptoms prompting healthcare evaluations prior to aSAH diagnosis are at increased risk of unfavorable neurologic outcomes and ... ...

    Abstract Objectives: Existing literature suggests that patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) and "sentinel" aSAH symptoms prompting healthcare evaluations prior to aSAH diagnosis are at increased risk of unfavorable neurologic outcomes and death. Accordingly, these encounters have been presumed to be unrecognized opportunities to diagnose aSAH and the worse outcomes representative of the added risks of delayed diagnoses. We sought to reinvestigate this paradigm among a contemporary cohort of patients with aSAH.
    Methods: A case-control cohort was retrospectively assembled among patients diagnosed with aSAH between January 1, 2007 and June 30, 2013 within an integrated healthcare delivery system. Patients with a discrete clinical evaluation for headache or neck pain within 14 days prior to formal aSAH diagnosis were identified as cases, and the remaining patients served as controls. Modified Rankin Scale scores at 90 days and 1 year were determined by structured chart review. Multivariable logistic regression controlling for age, sex, ethnicity, presence of intracerebral or intraventricular hemorrhage at diagnosis, and aneurysm size was used to compare adjusted outcomes. Sensitivity analyses were performed using varying definitions of favorable neurologic outcomes, a restricted control subgroup of patients with normal mental status at hospital admission, inclusion of additional cases that were diagnosed outside of the integrated health system, and exclusion of patients without evidence of subarachnoid blood on initial noncontrast cranial computed tomography (CT) at the diagnostic encounter (i.e. "CT-negative" SAH).
    Results: A total of 450 patients with aSAH were identified, 46 (10%) of whom had clinical evaluations for possible aSAH-related symptoms in the 14 days preceding formal diagnosis (cases). In contrast to prior reports, no differences were observed among cases compared to control patients in adjusted odds of death or unfavorable neurologic status at 90 days (0.35, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.11-1.15; 0.59, 95% CI = 0.22-1.60, respectively) or at 1 year (0.58, 95% CI = 0.19-1.73; 0.52, 95% CI = 0.18-1.51, respectively). Likewise, neither restricting the analysis to a control subgroup of patients with normal mental status at hospital admission, varying the dichotomous definition of unfavorable neurologic outcome, inclusion of cases diagnosed outside the integrated health system, or exclusion of patients with CT-negative SAH resulted in significant adjusted outcome differences.
    Conclusion: In a contemporary cohort of patients with aSAH, we observed no statistically significant increase in the adjusted odds of death or unfavorable neurologic outcomes among patients with clinical evaluations for possible aSAH-related symptoms in the 14 days preceding formal diagnosis of aSAH. While these findings cannot exclude a smaller risk difference than previously reported, they can help refine decision analyses and testing threshold determinations for patients with possible aSAH.
    MeSH term(s) Adult ; Aged ; Female ; Headache/etiology ; Humans ; Logistic Models ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Neck Pain/etiology ; Retrospective Studies ; Subarachnoid Hemorrhage/complications ; Subarachnoid Hemorrhage/diagnosis ; Subarachnoid Hemorrhage/mortality ; Tomography, X-Ray Computed
    Language English
    Publishing date 2017-09-18
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 1329813-6
    ISSN 1553-2712 ; 1069-6563
    ISSN (online) 1553-2712
    ISSN 1069-6563
    DOI 10.1111/acem.13252
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  7. Article ; Online: Higher intensity of 72-h noninvasive cardiac test referral does not improve short-term outcomes among emergency department patients with chest pain.

    Mark, Dustin G / Shan, Judy / Huang, Jie / Ballard, Dustin W / Vinson, David R / Kene, Mamata V / Sax, Dana R / Rauchwerger, Adina S / Reed, Mary E

    Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine

    2022  Volume 29, Issue 6, Page(s) 736–747

    Abstract: Background: It is unclear whether referral for cardiac noninvasive testing (NIT) following emergency department (ED) chest pain encounters improves short-term outcomes.: Methods: This was a retrospective cohort study of patients presenting with chest ...

    Abstract Background: It is unclear whether referral for cardiac noninvasive testing (NIT) following emergency department (ED) chest pain encounters improves short-term outcomes.
    Methods: This was a retrospective cohort study of patients presenting with chest pain, without ST-elevation myocardial infarction or myocardial injury by serum troponin testing, between 2013 and 2019 to 21 EDs within an integrated health care system. We examined the association between NIT referral (within 72 h of the ED encounter) and a primary outcome of 60-day major adverse cardiac events (MACE). Secondary outcomes were 60-day MACE without coronary revascularization (MACE-CR) and 60-day all-cause mortality. To account for confounding by indication for NIT, we grouped patient encounters into ranked tertiles of NIT referral intensity based on the likelihood of 72-h NIT referral associated with the initially assigned emergency physician, relative to local peers and within discrete time periods. Associations between NIT referral-intensity tertile and outcomes were assessed using risk-adjusted multivariable logistic regression.
    Results: Among 210,948 eligible patient encounters, 72-h NIT referral frequency was 11.9%, 18.3%, and 25.9% in low, intermediate, and high NIT referral-intensity encounters, respectively. Compared with the low referral-intensity tertile, there was a higher risk of 60-day MACE within the high referral-intensity tertile (odds ratio [OR] = 1.11, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.04 to 1.17) due to more coronary revascularizations without corresponding differences in MACE-CR or all-cause mortality. In analyses stratified by patients' estimated risk (HEART score; 50.5% lower risk, 38.7% moderate risk, 10.8% higher risk), the difference in 60-day MACE was primarily attributable to moderate-risk encounters (OR = 1.15, 95% CI = 1.08 to 1.24), with no differences among either lower- (OR = 1.10, 95% CI = 0.92 to 1.31) or higher- (OR = 1.01, 95% CI = 0.90 to 1.14) risk encounters.
    Conclusion: Higher referral intensity for 72-h NIT was associated with higher risk of coronary revascularization but no difference in adverse events within 60 days. These findings further call into question the urgency of NIT among ED patients without objective evidence of myocardial injury.
    MeSH term(s) Chest Pain/diagnosis ; Chest Pain/etiology ; Emergency Service, Hospital ; Humans ; Myocardial Infarction ; Referral and Consultation ; Retrospective Studies ; Risk Assessment
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-02-23
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 1329813-6
    ISSN 1553-2712 ; 1069-6563
    ISSN (online) 1553-2712
    ISSN 1069-6563
    DOI 10.1111/acem.14448
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  8. Article ; Online: Effect of Clinical Decision Support on Diagnostic Imaging for Pediatric Appendicitis: A Cluster Randomized Trial.

    Kharbanda, Anupam B / Vazquez-Benitez, Gabriela / Ballard, Dustin W / Vinson, David R / Chettipally, Uli K / Dehmer, Steven P / Ekstrom, Heidi / Rauchwerger, Adina S / McMichael, Brianna / Cotton, Dale M / Kene, Mamata V / Simon, Laura E / Zhu, Jingyi / Warton, E Margaret / O'Connor, Patrick J / Kharbanda, Elyse O

    JAMA network open

    2021  Volume 4, Issue 2, Page(s) e2036344

    Abstract: Importance: Appendicitis is the most common pediatric surgical emergency. Efforts to improve efficiency and quality of care have increased reliance on computed tomography (CT) and ultrasonography (US) in children with suspected appendicitis.: ... ...

    Abstract Importance: Appendicitis is the most common pediatric surgical emergency. Efforts to improve efficiency and quality of care have increased reliance on computed tomography (CT) and ultrasonography (US) in children with suspected appendicitis.
    Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of an electronic health record-linked clinical decision support intervention, AppyCDS, on diagnostic imaging, health care costs, and safety outcomes for patients with suspected appendicitis.
    Design, setting, and participants: In this parallel, cluster randomized trial, 17 community-based general emergency departments (EDs) in California, Minnesota, and Wisconsin were randomized to the AppyCDS intervention group or usual care (UC) group. Patients were aged 5 to 20 years, presenting for an ED visit with right-sided or diffuse abdominal pain lasting 5 days or less. We excluded pregnant patients, those with a prior appendectomy, those with selected comorbidities, and those with traumatic injuries. The trial was conducted from October 2016 to July 2019.
    Interventions: AppyCDS prompted data entry at the point of care to estimate appendicitis risk using the pediatric appendicitis risk calculator (pARC). Based on pARC estimates, AppyCDS recommended next steps in care.
    Main outcomes and measures: Primary outcomes were CT, US, or any imaging (CT or US) during the index ED visit. Safety outcomes were perforations, negative appendectomies, and missed appendicitis. Costs were a secondary outcome. Ratio of ratios (RORs) for primary and safety outcomes and differences by group in cost were used to evaluate effectiveness of the clinical decision support tool.
    Results: We enrolled 3161 patients at intervention EDs and 2779 patients at UC EDs. The mean age of patients was 11.9 (4.6) years and 2614 (44.0%) were boys or young men. RORs for CT (0.94; 95% CI, 0.75-1.19), US (0.98; 95% CI, 0.84-1.14), and any imaging (0.96; 95% CI, 0.86-1.07) did not differ by study group. In an exploratory analysis conducted in 1 health system, AppyCDS was associated with a reduction in any imaging (ROR, 0.82; 95% CI, 0.73- 0.93) for patients with pARC score of 15% or less and a reduction in CT (ROR, 0.58; 95% CI, 0.45-0.74) for patients with a pARC score of 16% to 50%. Perforations, negative appendectomies, and cases of missed appendicitis by study phase did not differ significantly by study group. Costs did not differ overall by study group.
    Conclusions and relevance: In this study, AppyCDS was not associated with overall reductions in diagnostic imaging; exploratory analysis revealed more appropriate use of imaging in patients with a low pARC score.
    Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02633735.
    MeSH term(s) Abdominal Pain/diagnosis ; Abdominal Pain/etiology ; Adolescent ; Appendectomy ; Appendicitis/complications ; Appendicitis/diagnosis ; Appendicitis/diagnostic imaging ; Appendicitis/surgery ; Child ; Child, Preschool ; Decision Support Systems, Clinical ; Emergency Service, Hospital ; Female ; Health Care Costs/statistics & numerical data ; Humans ; Male ; Missed Diagnosis/statistics & numerical data ; Risk Assessment ; Tomography, X-Ray Computed/statistics & numerical data ; Ultrasonography/statistics & numerical data ; Young Adult
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-02-01
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Randomized Controlled Trial ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
    ISSN 2574-3805
    ISSN (online) 2574-3805
    DOI 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.36344
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  9. Article ; Online: Prospective Validation and Comparative Analysis of Coronary Risk Stratification Strategies Among Emergency Department Patients With Chest Pain.

    Mark, Dustin G / Huang, Jie / Kene, Mamata V / Sax, Dana R / Cotton, Dale M / Lin, James S / Bouvet, Sean C / Chettipally, Uli K / Anderson, Megan L / McLachlan, Ian D / Simon, Laura E / Shan, Judy / Rauchwerger, Adina S / Vinson, David R / Ballard, Dustin W / Reed, Mary E

    Journal of the American Heart Association

    2021  Volume 10, Issue 7, Page(s) e020082

    Abstract: Background Coronary risk stratification is recommended for emergency department patients with chest pain. Many protocols are designed as "rule-out" binary classification strategies, while others use graded-risk stratification. The comparative performance ...

    Abstract Background Coronary risk stratification is recommended for emergency department patients with chest pain. Many protocols are designed as "rule-out" binary classification strategies, while others use graded-risk stratification. The comparative performance of competing approaches at varying levels of risk tolerance has not been widely reported. Methods and Results This is a prospective cohort study of adult patients with chest pain presenting between January 2018 and December 2019 to 13 medical center emergency departments within an integrated healthcare delivery system. Using an electronic clinical decision support interface, we externally validated and assessed the net benefit (at varying risk thresholds) of several coronary risk scores (History, ECG, Age, Risk Factors, and Troponin [HEART] score, HEART pathway, Emergency Department Assessment of Chest Pain Score Accelerated Diagnostic Protocol), troponin-only strategies (fourth-generation assay), unstructured physician gestalt, and a novel risk algorithm (RISTRA-ACS). The primary outcome was 60-day major adverse cardiac event defined as myocardial infarction, cardiac arrest, cardiogenic shock, coronary revascularization, or all-cause mortality. There were 13 192 patient encounters included with a 60-day major adverse cardiac event incidence of 3.7%. RISTRA-ACS and HEART pathway had the lowest negative likelihood ratios (0.06, 95% CI, 0.03-0.10 and 0.07, 95% CI, 0.04-0.11, respectively) and the greatest net benefit across a range of low-risk thresholds. RISTRA-ACS demonstrated the highest discrimination for 60-day major adverse cardiac event (area under the receiver operating characteristic curve 0.92, 95% CI, 0.91-0.94,
    MeSH term(s) Adolescent ; Adult ; Aged ; Aged, 80 and over ; Biomarkers/blood ; Chest Pain/blood ; Chest Pain/diagnosis ; Chest Pain/epidemiology ; Decision Support Systems, Clinical ; Electrocardiography/methods ; Emergency Service, Hospital/statistics & numerical data ; Female ; Follow-Up Studies ; Humans ; Incidence ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Prospective Studies ; ROC Curve ; Risk Assessment/methods ; Risk Factors ; Survival Rate/trends ; Time Factors ; Troponin/blood ; United States/epidemiology ; Young Adult
    Chemical Substances Biomarkers ; Troponin
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-03-31
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Multicenter Study ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't ; Validation Study
    ZDB-ID 2653953-6
    ISSN 2047-9980 ; 2047-9980
    ISSN (online) 2047-9980
    ISSN 2047-9980
    DOI 10.1161/JAHA.120.020082
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  10. Article ; Online: Graded Coronary Risk Stratification for Emergency Department Patients With Chest Pain: A Controlled Cohort Study.

    Mark, Dustin G / Huang, Jie / Ballard, Dustin W / Kene, Mamata V / Sax, Dana R / Chettipally, Uli K / Lin, James S / Bouvet, Sean C / Cotton, Dale M / Anderson, Megan L / McLachlan, Ian D / Simon, Laura E / Shan, Judy / Rauchwerger, Adina S / Vinson, David R / Reed, Mary E

    Journal of the American Heart Association

    2021  Volume 10, Issue 22, Page(s) e022539

    Abstract: Background Resource utilization among emergency department (ED) patients with possible coronary chest pain is highly variable. Methods and Results Controlled cohort study amongst 21 EDs of an integrated healthcare system examining the implementation of a ...

    Abstract Background Resource utilization among emergency department (ED) patients with possible coronary chest pain is highly variable. Methods and Results Controlled cohort study amongst 21 EDs of an integrated healthcare system examining the implementation of a graded coronary risk stratification algorithm (RISTRA-ACS [risk stratification for acute coronary syndrome]). Thirteen EDs had access to RISTRA-ACS within the electronic health record (RISTRA sites) beginning in month 24 of a 48-month study period (January 2016 to December 2019); the remaining 8 EDs served as contemporaneous controls. Study participants had a chief complaint of chest pain and serum troponin measurement in the ED. The primary outcome was index visit resource utilization (observation unit or hospital admission, or 7-day objective cardiac testing). Secondary outcomes were 30-day objective cardiac testing, 60-day major adverse cardiac events (MACE), and 60-day MACE-CR (MACE excluding coronary revascularization). Difference-in-differences analyses controlled for secular trends with stratification by estimated risk and adjustment for risk factors, ED physician and facility. A total of 154 914 encounters were included. Relative to control sites, 30-day objective cardiac testing decreased at RISTRA sites among patients with low (≤2%) estimated 60-day MACE risk (-2.5%, 95% CI -3.7 to -1.2%,
    MeSH term(s) Acute Coronary Syndrome/diagnosis ; Acute Coronary Syndrome/therapy ; Chest Pain/diagnosis ; Chest Pain/etiology ; Cohort Studies ; Electrocardiography ; Emergency Service, Hospital ; Humans ; Risk Assessment
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-11-06
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 2653953-6
    ISSN 2047-9980 ; 2047-9980
    ISSN (online) 2047-9980
    ISSN 2047-9980
    DOI 10.1161/JAHA.121.022539
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