FOI_6387

Internal Reference Number: FOI_6387

Date Request Received: 06/12/2021 00:00:00

Date Request Replied To: 16/12/2021 00:00:00

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Request Summary: Digital Sepsis Alert

Request Category: Companies


Question Number 1: Does your Trust use an electronic health/patient record?

Answer To Question 1: Yes, Lorenzo

Question Number 2: If YES - Who is the provider of the electronic health/patient record?

Answer To Question 2: Dedalus

Question Number 3: When was the electronic health/patient record introduced?

Answer To Question 3: 2016

Question Number 4: Does your Trust use a digital sepsis alert? NB - Digital sepsis alert: an electronic notification that the patient may be at risk of developing sepsis or may have sepsis. This may notify clinicians as a pop-up in the electronic health record, a flag next to the patient on a ward list or a message/bleep to a mobile phone or bleeper.

Answer To Question 4: Sepsis screening is linked to the NEWS2 score which is recorded electronically. The practitioner is prompted to consider sepsis if patients scores 5 and above or a single parameter 3. On the doctors screen the prompt appears again to remind them to commence the paper pathway

Question Number 5: If YES to Q4 - Please give details on the hospital departments in which the alert is active.

Answer To Question 5: All ward areas including Emergency Department and Acute Medical Unit. Paediatric and Maternity Unit are excluded.

Question Number 6: Please provide details of the algorithm[1] and/or thresholds[2] in use in the digital sepsis alert. NB: [1] Algorithm – this may be NEWS2 or Red Flag Sepsis; an algorithm provided by the EHR provider, such as the St John Sepsis Algorithm provided by Cerner; or a bespoke algorithm designed in house. [2] Information on thresholds would include the level at which the clinical observation contributes to the alert, such as a lactate value of 2.0mmol/litre.

Answer To Question 6: See attached To accompany this answer to question 6 please also see the documents listed below: FOI 6387 - Q6 response.docx
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