Comment Re: Better than nothing (Score 0) 53
There are tons of open source sepsis algorithms. This one just happens to be easy to implement because itâ(TM)s baked into the system.
Itâ(TM)s not really better than nothing.
There is an opportunity cost to all of those false alarms. Eg someone else is dying of something else. Itâ(TM)s unclear if overall hospital mortality goes up or down as a result