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Improving IV Insulin Administration in a Community Hospital
Published on: June 11, 2012
Translating Nursing Data into Computational Metrics: An Evaluation Guideline for Inpatient Intravenous and
Varsha Varkhedi1, Kenrick Cato2, David Albers3
1Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, NY.
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A challenge in utilizing electronic health record data for artificial intelligence models is contextualization, including understanding differences between missing data and missed care. Our team aims to develop knowledge graphs and computational models that account for these contexts, such as when data is missing (nurses being unable to document), but acceptable nursing care was delivered. We developed evaluation guidelines for intravenous and subcutaneous insulin management to establish a binary variable derived from EHR data representing minimally acceptable safe and quality nursing care for use in computational modeling. These guidelines were developed by our nurse informatics team based on best practices and validated by three nurse subject matter experts. The resulting evaluation guidelines are agnostic to institutional policies and focus on evaluating minimally acceptable safe and quality levels of care to inform inferences about missing data versus missed nursing care. Future work includes data-driven validations and expanding to other clinical scenarios.
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