Adaptation and Pilot Implementation of a Validated, Electronic Real-Time Clinical Decision Support Tool for Care of Pneumonia Patients in 10 Utah Urgent Care Centers
Intermountain Health Care, Inc.
Summary
We plan to adapt an innovative, validated emergency department (ED) CDS tool based on consensus guidelines for pneumonia care (ePNa) to function in urgent care clinics (Instacares at Intermountain) and combine it seamlessly with Stanford's CheXED artificial intelligence model using an interoperable platform currently under development by Care Transformation Information Services at Intermountain. We will then deploy it to one of two groups of Instacares (randomly selected) using the CFIR framework for Implementation Science best practice.
Description
Clinicians' ability to accurately diagnose pneumonia and then choose the most appropriate treatment options is enhanced by well-designed clinical decision support (CDS). Pneumonia CDS has historically been focused on inpatient settings, but ambulatory care settings with high pneumonia patient volumes also might benefit. The investigators propose to adapt an innovative, validated emergency department (ED) CDS tool based on consensus guidelines for pneumonia care (ePNa) and deploy it to urgent care centers (UCC) using the CFIR framework. Electronic tools such as ePNa may become even more useful…