UMMS Sepsis Early Prediction Score (SEPSys) and RESCUE Score Combined Clinical Trial

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

150000 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2026-04-01

Study Completion Date

2027-06-30

Brief Summary

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This study is designed to test two new risk scores - one designed to predict a patient's four-hour risk of developing sepsis and one designed to predict a patient's four-hour risk of deterioration (cardiac arrest, death, unplanned ICU transfer, or rapid response team call). The goal of this study is to improve provider awareness of a patient's risk of these two negative outcomes by providing them with new risk scores. The primary outcome will be the time from when the risk score becomes elevated to when vital signs such as heart rate or blood pressure are measured, suggesting an increased awareness.

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Detailed Description

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The University of Maryland Medical System is conducting a study designed to test two new risk scores - one designed to predict a patient's four-hour risk of developing sepsis and one designed to predict a patient's four-hour risk of deterioration (death, cardiac arrest, unplanned ICU transfer, or rapid response call). The goal of this study is to improve provider awareness of a patient's risk of these two negative outcomes, sepsis and deterioration, by providing them with new risk scores. To assess provider awareness of risk, this study will measure time from elevated risk score to measurement of vital signs, such as heart rate or blood pressure with the hope that increased awareness of risk will decrease time to vital sign measurement, indicating closer monitoring.

The first risk score, the RESCUE Score, produces a highly accurate 1-4 color-coded risk score where a 1 indicates that a patient has a low risk of having a deterioration event in the next four hours and a 4 indicates that the patient has a high risk of having a deterioration event in the next four hours. The second risk score, the SEPSys Score, produces a highly accurate 1-4 color coded risk score where 1 indicates that a patient has a low risk of developing sepsis in the next 4 hours and a 4 indicates that the patient has a high risk of developing sepsis in the next 4 hours. Both of these scores are predictive of events that may happen in the future but are not detective or diagnostic of events that are actively occurring.

In this study, hospitals will be randomized for the order in which they cross-over from the control arm (no risk score) to either having the SEPSys or RESCUE Score visible for their inpatients. After a few months with an individual risk score, the second risk score will be added. Thus, at the beginning of the study, no hospitals with have the new risk scores available, for a period in the middle of the study each hospital will have one risk score available, and by the end of the study all hospitals will have both risk scores available. Regardless of which risk scores are available, the clinicians will be free to recommend treatments and implement care plans using their own judgement. No procedures impacting patient care will be specified for this study.

Conditions

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Sepsis Patient Deterioration

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

FACTORIAL

This is a 2-intervention + control cluster-randomized factorial stepped wedge design clinical trial

Primary Study Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Participants

Study Groups

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SEPSys

The RESCUE Score is a clinical decision support tool for predicting the risk of patient experiencing clinical deterioration (cardiac arrest, rapid response team call, death, or unplanned increase in care) in the next 4 hours. The RESCUE Score produces a 1-4, color-coded risk, where 4 (red) is the highest risk and 1 (green) is the lowest risk.

Intervention Type DEVICE

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Units are part of a member hospital of the University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS)
* Units treat inpatient patients
* Units agree to participate in the study

* Encounter is on a participating inpatient unit
* Encounter is associated with a bedded patient in the hospital
* Encounter is associated with an adult (at least 18 years of age at time of admission)

• Encounter has a SEPSys Score

• Encounter has a RESCUE Score

Exclusion Criteria

* Unit treats exclusively outpatients or is located in an outpatient setting
* Unit treats primarily or exclusively pediatric patients (patients under the age of 18 years old)
* Unit treats exclusively psychiatric patients

* Encounter is with OB for a normal delivery and the patient has yet to give birth. This encounter can become eligible once the patient has given birth.
* Encounter is admitted with a diagnosis of sepsis
* Sepsis was already diagnosed during the encounter

This encounter will have been eligible until the patient began showing clinical signs or symptoms of sepsis or received a diagnosis of sepsis. Once they have a diagnosis or clinical signs or symptoms of sepsis, their SEPSys Score will no longer be updated. Data will continue to be collected on time of laboratory orders and treatments.

• Encounter is admitted with a high RESCUE Score (RESCUE Score of 4)

Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No