Integration of physical abuse clinical decision support at 2 general emergency departments
Publication Date
2019
Journal Title
J Am Med Inform Assoc
Abstract
© The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Medical Informatics Association. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com. OBJECTIVE: The study sought to develop and evaluate an electronic health record-based child abuse clinical decision support system in 2 general emergency departments. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A combination of a child abuse screen, natural language processing, physician orders, and discharge diagnoses were used to identify children system, 86 during the preintervention and 156 during the intervention. The number of children identified with suspicious injuries increased 4-fold during the intervention (P < .001). Compliance was 70% (7 of 10) in the preintervention period vs 50% (22 of 44) in the intervention, a change that was not statistically different (P = .55). Fifty-two percent of providers said that receiving the alert changed their clinical decision making. There was no relationship between compliance and provider or patient demographics. CONCLUSIONS: A multifaceted child abuse clinical decision support system resulted in a marked increase in the number of young children identified as having injuries suspicious for physical abuse in 2 general emergency departments. Compliance with published guidelines did not change; we hypothesize that this is related to the increased number of children identified with suspicious, but less serious injuries. These injuries were likely missed preintervention. Tracking compliance with guidelines over time will be important to assess whether compliance increases as physician comfort with evaluation of suspected physical abuse in young children improves.
Volume Number
26
Issue Number
10
Pages
1020 - 1029
Document Type
Article
Status
Faculty
Facility
School of Medicine
Primary Department
General Internal Medicine
PMID
DOI
10.1093/jamia/ocz069
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