2. Common Challenges
Clinical:
• Increased acuity & age
• Deteriorating patients with
inadequate monitoring
• Pressure ulcers
• Patient falls
• No increase in staff
Financial
• ICU length of stay
• Increased demand for
Telemetry & ICU beds
(overused?)
• Reimbursement cuts on
adverse events & readmitted
patients
Managerial
• Staff accountability
& critical thinking
• Inadequate management
tools
• Alarm fatigue
• Patient discharge and
readmission prevention
Multi-faceted Challenges in Healthcare
3. • Cost of treating pressure ulcers: £2.1bn annually1
NHS Statistics
1. Bennett, G et al (2004) The Cost of Pressure Ulcers in the UK
2. National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (2013) Falls: the assessment and prevention of falls in older people
3. Tian, Y et al (2013) Exploring the system wide cost of falls in Torbay
4. NHS Confederation (2016) Key Statistics on the NHS
5. Data.Gov.UK (2015) Department of Health: NHS Hospital Stay
‘Harmsfree’campaign
• Cost of falls to the NHS: £2bn annually2
• Falls in hospitals accounted for 324,000 (26%) of all patient safety
incidents3
• Patient deterioration
• Average length of stay in hospital: 7 days4 with per bed day cost £4005
6. The EarlySense Chair Sensor
“Since we started using the chair sensor we
have had zero patient falls from chairs...”
(August 2014)
S. Hughes, RN. Director of Medical
Surgical
Coffee Regional Medical Center,
Douglas, GA
7. 87%
EarlySense Benefits
Reduction in Code Blue events
Reduction in Pressure Ulcers64%
Reduction in Falls44%
Reduction in Length of Stay9%
Based on a 7,643
Patient Clinical Trial
8. What are the costs?
Falls
• Pearson, K.B. & Coburn, A.F. Evidence-based Falls Prevention in Critical Access Hospitals. 2011.
• Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare (ACSQHC). Preventing falls and harm from falls in older people: best practice guidelines for Australian community
care. Canberra (ACT): Commonwealth of Australia, 2009.
10. 87%
EarlySense Benefits
Reduction in Code Blue events
Reduction in Pressure Ulcers64%
Reduction in Falls44%
Reduction in Length of Stay9%
Based on a 7,643
Patient Clinical Trial
Reduction in Pressure Ulcer Incidence
11. What are the costs?
Reduction in Pressure Ulcer Incidence
• Cost of litigation £180,000 per case on average
• £2 billion pa
• 4% of total NHS budget
• Prevalence of Hospital Acquired Pressure Ulcers is 5% in acute care settings1
• Treatment costs: up to £40,000 an ulcer
1 Lyder et al. Hospital-acquired pressure ulcers: results from the national medicare patient safety monitoring system study. J
Am Geriatr Soc. 2012 Sep;60(9):1603-8.
12. What are the costs?
Reduction in Pressure Ulcer Incidence
1 Lyder et al. Hospital-acquired pressure ulcers: results from the national medicare patient safety monitoring system study. J
Am Geriatr Soc. 2012 Sep;60(9):1603-8.
Pressure ulcers are considered to be preventable;
and Hospital Acquired Pressure Ulcers (HAPU)are
commonly perceived as an indicator of
quality of care
• Stay in hospital longer - 136% higher average length of stay
• More likely to be readmitted within 30 days - 33% more
• More likely to die during their hospitalisation: 2.81 times (181% more)
Patients with HAPU compared to patients without HAPU are1
14. 87%
EarlySense Benefits
Reduction in Code Blue events
Reduction in Pressure Ulcers64%
Reduction in Falls44%
Reduction in Length of Stay9%
Based on a 7,643
Patient Clinical Trial
Reduction in Pressure Ulcer Incidence
15. Vitals tracking
Critical events are estimated to occur in up to 17%
of patient admissions1
1. The Joint Commission Guidelines
2. Schein R.M. et al, Chest 1990; 98: 1388-92.
3. Franklin C. & Mathew J. Critical care medicine 22, 244-247
4. Young MP et al, J Gen Intern Med. 2003; 18: 77-83
5. Chaboyer W et al (Amer J of Critical Care. 2008;17)
6. Churpek, M et al. (Chest: 2012;141)
Significant number of
critical events are
preceded by warning
signs 6 to 8 hours
prior to the event1
• Heart and Respiratory Rates are most
valuable early detectors of deterioration
risk5,6
• Responding to early warning signs reduces
mortality by 75% and cost by 40%4
• 66% of patients have abnormal symptoms
6 hours before cardiac arrest and the
doctor is informed only in 25% of these
patients3
• 70% of patients have respiratory problems
within 8 hours prior to circulatory arrest2
16. Cardiac Arrhythmia – Case Study
About the Patient:
A 55 year old female with metastatic Lung Cancer. History
of Pneumonia, Embolus and Stroke. Hospitalised for over a
month awaiting rehab placement.
EarlySense Indication:
7:30 AM: High HR alerts (180’s BPM)
Assessment:
Complaints of palpitations and light headedness. The
patient had not reported this, thinking it a symptom of her
condition. An ECG was undertaken and an Atrial flutter
identified.
Response:
Suitable medication was prescribed
Outcome:
The patient returned to normal sinus rhythm.
High Heart Rate Alert Leading to Identification of Atrial Flutter
and return to Normal Sinus Rhythm
Med-Surg Dep., MA, USA
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Respiratory Rate
Heart Rate
High Heart Rate Alert
Multiple Alerts
18. EarlySense Reduction in Alarm Fatigue
In comparison with other monitoring solutions designed and
intended for the acute care environment, EarlySense provides
very low alarm rates:
1. Zimlichman et al. Evaluation of EverOn as a Tool to Detect Deteriorations
2. LifeSync: LifeSync Wireless ECG System… Increases ECG Alarm Accuracy
3. Malviya, S. et al., A & A June 2000 vol. 90 no. 6 1336-1340
Monitoring
Technology
Alarms per 100
hours of
monitoring
False alarms per
100 hours of
monitoring
Alarms per nurse
per shift
False alarms per
nurse per shift
EarlySense1 2.8 1.2 1.7 .07
Telemetry2 151.8 82.0 91.1 49.2
Oximetry3 200.0 118.0 120.0 72.0
19. 1. Allman RM, eat al. Pressure ulcers, hospital complications, and disease severity: impact on hospital costs and length of stay. Adv Wound Care. 1999.
2. Milbrandt EB, et al. Growth of intensive care unit resource use and its estimated cost in Medicare. Crit Care Med. 2008. Health Care Utilization
Project (HCUP), Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2008
Model
Analysis
Consideration
Savings Per
Patient
Admission
Annual
Savings
1. Base Case Total cost of intervention effects $710 $1,701,600
1. Conservative
Includes only direct variable cost
Component of final day of LOS
$224 $537,400
Slight, SP et al, Society of General Internal Medicine. 2013
Assuming 33 beds, 2,500 Patients per Unit per Year
Costs Associated for Calculation:
Pressure Ulcer = $15,229 per case¹
Medical-surgical Hospitalization = $1,448 per Day²
ICU Hospitalization = $2,575 per Day²
22. Any Questions?
If you would like to know more about delivering improved outcomes using EarlySense
Please pay us a visit: BES Rehab Ltd on Stand 128
Hinweis der Redaktion
“Fine words” say the sceptics, “but where’s the money? With all the pressures we face, it is simply not affordable to raise safety standards in way you ask”.
Nothing could be more wrong.
Wrong ethically, because it can never be right to condone a system in which patients suffer harm unnecessarily.
But wrong economically too.
Because our starting point must be to recognise that unsafe care ends up being more - not less - expensive, particularly if you look at the costs to the healthcare system as a whole.
Every year the NHS spends around £1.3 bn on litigation claims, money that could and should be spent on frontline staff. At a hospital level the figures are even more startling: in recent years North Cumbria paid £3.6m to just one individual. Bromley paid £7m to another. Tameside paid a staggering £44m in compensation over just four years. Money matters, of course, but look at the impact on staff – and above all patients and their families.
There can be no greater breach of the trust between clinician and patient than when a patient is harmed unnecessarily. There may be a profit motive in no-fault manufacturing but there is a moral motive for zero-harm healthcare. And we should welcome that – because that is what healthcare is: the privilege of helping human beings at their most vulnerableAnd the effect on frontline healthcare workers is profound if unsafe care is not checked.
Not only does it take up huge amounts of clinical time when mistakes have to be corrected and hospital stays prolonged. It has – as I have seen for myself - a devastating effect on staff morale and self-confidence. Avoidable harm does more than damage institutional reputations - it is a violation of the values and ideals that unite everyone in the provision of health.
Financially, reputationally and morally unsafe care carries a price – a price we cannot and should not pay.
Raising awareness, improving education and adopting more appropriate preventative interventions are all necessary to achieve our objectives.
NHS Safety Thermometer
The NHS Safety Thermometer is a local improvement tool for measuring, monitoring and analysing patient harms and 'harm free' care.
Supporting 'harm free' care
The NHS Safety Thermometer provides a quick and simple method for surveying patient harms and analysing results so that you can measure and monitor local improvement and harm free care (external) (Opens in a new window) over time.
The campaign is focused on SSKIN; a five step model for pressure ulcer prevention:
Surface: make sure your patients have the right support
Skin inspection: early inspection means early detection. Show patients & carers what to look for
Keep your patients moving
Incontinence / moisture: your patients need to be clean and dry
Nutrition / hydration: help patients have the right diet and plenty of fluids
A discreet, highly sensitive contact free sensor is placed under the mattress
Falls reduction
Impact of Nursing Safety Initiatives on Patient Outcomes Florida, Tampa. FONE Poster http://www.earlysense.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/FONE-Poster-Nov-2013.pdf 28.01.2016
PU reduction
Brown, HV & Zimlichman, E (2010) Improved Outcomes and Reduced Costs with Contact-free Continuous Patient Monitoring on a Medical-Surgical Hospital Unit EarlySense.com http://www.earlysense.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/White_Paper_Patient-safety_Dec8_2010.pdf 28.01.2016
Resuscitation reduction
Brown, HV et al (2013) Continuous Monitoring in an Inpatient Medical-Surgical Unit: A Controlled Clinical Trial Am J Med127, 226-232
Overall Length of of stay
Brown, HV et al, The American Journal of Medicine, In Press. http://www.earlysense.com/faq/
Anyone can have a fall, but older people are more vulnerable and likely to fall, especially if they have a long-term health condition.
Falls and fall-related injuries are a common and serious problem for older people. People aged 65 and older have the highest risk of falling, with 30% of people older than 65 and 50% of people older than 80 falling at least once a year.
The human cost of falling includes distress, pain, injury, loss of confidence, loss of independence and mortality. Falling also affects the family members and carers of people who fall. Falls are estimated to cost the NHS more than £2.3 billion per year (College of Optometrists/British Geriatrics Society, 2011). Therefore falling has an impact on quality of life, health and healthcare costs.
Falls reduction
Impact of Nursing Safety Initiatives on Patient Outcomes Florida, Tampa. FONE Poster http://www.earlysense.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/FONE-Poster-Nov-2013.pdf 28.01.2016
PU reduction
Brown, HV & Zimlichman, E (2010) Improved Outcomes and Reduced Costs with Contact-free Continuous Patient Monitoring on a Medical-Surgical Hospital Unit EarlySense.com http://www.earlysense.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/White_Paper_Patient-safety_Dec8_2010.pdf 28.01.2016
Resuscitation reduction
Brown, HV et al (2013) Continuous Monitoring in an Inpatient Medical-Surgical Unit: A Controlled Clinical Trial Am J Med127, 226-232
Overall Length of of stay
Brown, HV et al, The American Journal of Medicine, In Press. http://www.earlysense.com/faq/
Falls reduction
Impact of Nursing Safety Initiatives on Patient Outcomes Florida, Tampa. FONE Poster http://www.earlysense.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/FONE-Poster-Nov-2013.pdf 28.01.2016
PU reduction
Brown, HV & Zimlichman, E (2010) Improved Outcomes and Reduced Costs with Contact-free Continuous Patient Monitoring on a Medical-Surgical Hospital Unit EarlySense.com http://www.earlysense.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/White_Paper_Patient-safety_Dec8_2010.pdf 28.01.2016
Resuscitation reduction
Brown, HV et al (2013) Continuous Monitoring in an Inpatient Medical-Surgical Unit: A Controlled Clinical Trial Am J Med127, 226-232
Overall Length of of stay
Brown, HV et al, The American Journal of Medicine, In Press. http://www.earlysense.com/faq/
Analysis of 56 deaths reported to the National Patient Safety Agency over a one year period identified that 11 Per cent were as a result of not recognised or acted upon!
Clinical deterioration can happen at any point in a patient’s illness, or care process,
but patients are particularly vulnerable following an emergency admission to
hospital, after surgery and during recovery from a critical illness.
Many patients who suffer cardiopulmonary arrests show signs of deterioration during the hours before the arrest1 and it has been estimated that approximately 23,000 in-hospital cardiac arrests in the UK could be avoided each year with better care2.
no observations made for a prolonged period and therefore changes in a patient’s vital
signs not detected;
Diane.rodger@basf.com