title: Automated identification and predictive tools to help identify high-risk heart failure patients: pilot evaluation.
abstract: Develop and evaluate an automated identification and predictive risk report for hospitalized heart failure (HF) patients.
  
  
  
  Dictated free-text reports from the previous 24 h were analyzed each day with natural language processing (NLP), to help improve the early identification of hospitalized patients with HF. A second application that uses an Intermountain Healthcare-developed predictive score to determine each HF patient's risk for 30-day hospital readmission and 30-day mortality was also developed. That information was included in an identification and predictive risk report, which was evaluated at a 354-bed hospital that treats high-risk HF patients.
  
  
  
  The addition of NLP-identified HF patients increased the identification score's sensitivity from 82.6% to 95.3% and its specificity from 82.7% to 97.5%, and the model's positive predictive value is 97.45%. Daily multidisciplinary discharge planning meetings are now based on the information provided by the HF identification and predictive report, and clinician's review of potential HF admissions takes less time compared to the previously used manual methodology (10 vs 40 min). An evaluation of the use of the HF predictive report identified a significant reduction in 30-day mortality and a significant increase in patient discharges to home care instead of to a specialized nursing facility.
  
  
  
  Using clinical decision support to help identify HF patients and automatically calculating their 30-day all-cause readmission and 30-day mortality risks, coupled with a multidisciplinary care process pathway, was found to be an effective process to improve HF patient identification, significantly reduce 30-day mortality, and significantly increase patient discharges to home care.
authors.affiliation: Medical Informatics, Intermountain Healthcare Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah rscott.evans@imail.org.
authors.forename: R Scott
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Evans
authors.affiliation: Intermountain Healthcare Cardiovascular Clinical Program.
authors.forename: Jose
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Benuzillo
authors.affiliation: Intermountain Heart Institute, Intermountain Medical Center Genetic Epidemiology Division, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah.
authors.forename: Benjamin D
authors.initials: BD
authors.lastname: Horne
authors.affiliation: Medical Informatics, Intermountain Healthcare.
authors.forename: James F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Lloyd
authors.affiliation: Enterprise Data Warehouse, Intermountain Healthcare.
authors.forename: Alejandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bradshaw
authors.affiliation: Intermountain Heart Institute, Intermountain Medical Center.
authors.forename: Deborah
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Budge
authors.affiliation: Intermountain Heart Institute, Intermountain Medical Center.
authors.forename: Kismet D
authors.initials: KD
authors.lastname: Rasmusson
authors.affiliation: Intermountain Healthcare Cardiovascular Clinical Program.
authors.forename: Colleen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Roberts
authors.affiliation: McKay Dee Hospital Cardiovascular Program.
authors.forename: Jason
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Buckway
authors.affiliation: McKay Dee Hospital Cardiovascular Program.
authors.forename: Norma
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Geer
authors.affiliation: Intermountain Healthcare Integrated Care Management.
authors.forename: Teresa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Garrett
authors.affiliation: Intermountain Healthcare Cardiovascular Clinical Program Intermountain Heart Institute, Intermountain Medical Center.
authors.forename: Donald L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Lappé
mesh_terms: D000704:Analysis of Variance; D003658:Decision Making, Computer-Assisted; D057286:Electronic Health Records; D005260:Female; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D010359:Patient Readmission; D010865:Pilot Projects; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D012720:Severity of Illness Index
keywords: clinical decision support; heart failure; risk stratification