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World J Methodol. Mar 26, 2017; 7(1): 16-24
Published online Mar 26, 2017. doi: 10.5662/wjm.v7.i1.16
Towards automated calculation of evidence-based clinical scores
Christopher A Aakre, Mikhail A Dziadzko, Vitaly Herasevich
Christopher A Aakre, Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, United States
Mikhail A Dziadzko, Vitaly Herasevich, Department of Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, United States
Vitaly Herasevich, Multidisciplinary Epidemiology and Translational Research in Intensive Care, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, United States
Author contributions: Aakre CA was responsible for the study design, survey design, statistical analysis, manuscript drafting, revisions, and final paper; Dziadzko MA participated in study and survey design and manuscript review; Herasevich V participated in study and survey design, manuscript drafting, revisions and review.
Institutional review board statement: The study was reviewed and approved by the Mayo Clinic Institutional Review Board (IRB #15-009228).
Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors do not report any conflicts of interest related to the research contained in this manuscript.
Data sharing statement: Technical appendix, statistical code, and dataset are available from the corresponding author at aakre.christopher@mayo.edu. Consent was not obtained, but data are anonymized and risk of identification is low.
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Correspondence to: Christopher A Aakre, MD, Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, 200 First St SW, Rochester, MN 55905, United States. aakre.christopher@mayo.edu
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Received: August 28, 2016
Peer-review started: August 29, 2016
First decision: November 21, 2016
Revised: November 30, 2016
Accepted: January 16, 2017
Article in press: January 17, 2017
Published online: March 26, 2017
Core Tip

Core tip: We report the results of a modified Delphi survey assessing the importance of automated clinical score calculation to practicing internists and intensivists. Although few scores were identified as “very important” for automation, clinicians indicated automated calculation was desired for many commonly used scores. Further studies of the technical feasibility of automating calculation of these scores can help meet these clinicians’ needs.