Key result
Planned scoping review characterizes high-acuity admission criteria to inform automated clinical deterioration prediction systems.
Why the study?
Existing outcome measures to identify patient deterioration for developing predictive automated systems have significant limitations, and published criteria for admission to high acuity areas may inform alternate measures.
This protocol outlines a scoping review to characterize published criteria for ICU and high-acuity admission to inform the development of better outcome measures for automated clinical deterioration prediction systems.
Planned scoping review of high-acuity admission criteria; leaves open standardized outcomes for automated deterioration prediction systems.
Introduction Effectively identifying deteriorated patients is vital to the development and validation of automated systems designed to predict clinical deterioration. Existing outcome measures used for this purpose have significant limitations. Published criteria for admission to high acuity inpatient areas may represent markers of patient deterioration and could inform the development of alternate outcome measures. Objectives This is a protocol for a scoping review which aims to characterise published criteria for admission of adult inpatients to high acuity inpatient areas including intensive care units. Data sources Electronic databases PubMed and ProQuest EBook Central will be searched to identify papers published from 1999 to date of search. Publications of interest are those which describe prescriptive criteria for admission of adult inpatients to a clinical area with a higher level of care than a general hospital ward. Charting methods Data will be extracted from each publication using a standardised data-charting form. Data synthesis Admission criteria characteristics from included publications will be summarised and presented in text and summary table form.
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Soares et al. (2023) studied Clinical deterioration. Published criteria for ICU admission was evaluated on Characterization and frequency of published criteria for admission of adult inpatients to high acuity inpatient areas. A planned scoping review will characterize published criteria for admission of adult inpatients to high acuity inpatient areas to inform the development of automated systems predicting clinical deterioration.
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