Validation study of an automated electronic acute lung injury screening tool.
OBJECTIVE The authors designed an automated electronic system that incorporates data from multiple hospital information systems to screen for acute lung injury (ALI) in mechanically ventilated patients. The authors evaluated the accuracy of this system in diagnosing ALI in a cohort of patients with major trauma, but excluding patients with congestive heart failure (CHF). DESIGN Single-center validation study. Arterial blood gas (ABG) data and chest radiograph (CXR) reports for a [...]
Author(s): Azzam, Helen C, Khalsa, Satjeet S, Urbani, Richard, Shah, Chirag V, Christie, Jason D, Lanken, Paul N, Fuchs, Barry D
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M3120