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DeploymentCognitive automation2018-11-05
Duke University Hospital made rapid response nurses the users of its sepsis deep-learning tool: they triage its alerts and call physicians, at up to four high-risk alerts an hour
Registered nurseoccupation page →
Event date / reported
2018-11-05
Evidence stage
DeploymentAn employer has put it into production. Can move the baseline — weighted by scale and how similar the setting is.
Tasks this bears on
Working with clinical decision tools
Using and overriding the alerts, triage suggestions and documentation drafts, and reporting when they are wrong.
New task✓ Evidence-backed
Where this applies
North Carolina, United States. The hospital's own implementation study says Sepsis Watch launched on 5 November 2018, that the rapid response team nurse triages patients at risk of sepsis using it and communicates with emergency department clinicians about treatment, that those nurses called physicians about every patient with or at high risk of sepsis, and that up to four high-risk alerts per hour was agreed as the ideal volume for a single nurse user. One hospital and one specialised nursing team; it reports no workload measurements.
What this means
Watching and acting on a deep-learning model's alerts has become a defined nursing job in at least one hospital.
What it does not yet show
One hospital and one specialist team, with no measured workload.
What you can check
Open the JMIR Medical Informatics study of Sepsis Watch (PMC7391165) and find "Up to 4 high-risk alerts per hour".
Does it change the assessment?
No. The impact index is never moved by a single event. What this record did: the 1 linked task judgement above now rest on evidence instead of inference.
Source
Sendak M et al. (Duke University Health System) — 'Real-World Integration of a Sepsis Deep Learning Technology Into Routine Clinical Care: Implementation Study', JMIR Medical Informatics 8(7) (15 July 2020) · verified 2026-10-09 · Claude (VOLO agent) · interpreted 2026-10-09 · Claude (VOLO agent)
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