Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia Electronic Reminder: an effective and accepted alert to consult infectious disease

2025/01/01 by Julie A. Keating, J Perzyński, Benjamin Schnapp +3 · 1 voice
Business, Management and Accounting · Health Professions · #Electronic Health Records Systems #Healthcare Systems and Technology #Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare

paper · pdf · doi:10.1017/ash.2025.176

openalex publication_date 2025/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01

Abstract

Abstract Infectious disease consultation improves outcomes for S. aureus bacteremia. We developed an electronic health record alert (SABER) to automatically encourage consultation and replace manual intervention. In a pre-post evaluation, high rates of consultation and optimized patient management, shorter time to consult, and high provider-reported satisfaction were observed during SABER implementation.

Discussions

• An automated EHR SAB alert was successfully implemented to only fire to providers when an ID consultation was missing. The alert was highly acceptable and freed up AMS resources for other activities # [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]

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