In marketing materials and internal documents, national electronic health record vendor Epic Systems has touted the ability of its sepsis algorithm to crunch dozens of variables to detect the life-threatening condition in advance, enabling doctors to expedite the delivery of potentially lifesaving antibiotics.
But STAT has learned it is using a curious piece of data to make its prediction: whether a doctor has already ordered antibiotics.
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