automating patient triage in radiology - cheps · 2019-09-10 · dept. of emergency medicine...
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Improving Care and Efficiency through Analytics: Automating Patient Triage in Radiology
Craig Froehle, PhD
University of Cincinnati Lindner College of Business Dept. of Operations, Business Analytics & Information Systems College of Medicine Dept. of Emergency Medicine
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence
Collaborative work with Mark Halsted, MD and Neil Johnson, MD of CCHMC
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The Setting Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
– 587-bed private teaching pediatrics hospital – Over 1.1 million patient encounters last year – 16 patient care sites – Consistently ranked in top 3 institutions
Children’s Radiology services – Main hospital + 8 neighborhood locations – Operate from a centralized “stat box” after hours
• Staffed by 1-2 radiologists (attendings, fellows, residents)
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Main
CCHMC locations with radiology services
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Cases Arrive Randomly Different imaging modalities • X-ray • MRI • Ultrasound • CT Different requisition-delivery mechanisms • Faxed from remote locations • Brought by hand from on-site staff
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Overall Goals: Ensure most critical patients are served first Reduce duration and variability of patient waiting Approach: Develop automated workflow management system Two functions: 1) Automatic triage of waiting cases 2) Automatic case routing and documentation of flow
through the process
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Key performance metric
Measuring Baseline Performance
Baseline Sample: 6,093 exams, spanning 14 days
End Procedure 1
Radiologist Dictates
Radiologist Signs Off
Median (minutes)
Overall 55 Emergency 23 Outpatient 57 Inpatient 103
Findings Conveyed
How can we improve this?
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Automating Triage
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Automating Triage
• Radiologists use internal heuristics to select their next case
• Can we develop an algorithm to emulate their decision-making? – Using easily obtainable data – Simple to program
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9 Potentially Influential Variables • Patient Age • Exam Type
– 20 exam categories • Subjective Acuity
– Extreme, Mod., Mild • Medical Acuity
– 5 categories (Airway, Trauma, Fracture, Pneum., Routine)
• Patient Anxiety – High, Low
• Referring MD Anxiety – High, Low
• Additional View? – Yes, No
• Patient Waiting? – Yes, No
• History – Brief background
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Data Collection
• Constructed 25 sets of 20 hypothetical cases – Randomly generated – Validated for OK medicine
• For each case, asked radiologists to rate (1-
100) the urgency of the case
• Then asked to rank the 5 most urgent cases
• 22 radiologists (88%) participated
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Patient/Case Information Please Provide the Following:
Case #
Patient Age Type
Subjective Acuity
Medical Acuity
Patient Waiting
Patient Anxiety
Ref’g MD
Anxiety Add'l View? History
Urgency Score (100 = Extreme
1 = None)
Rank 5 Most
Urgent
1 18 wk Chest Mild Pneum No Low High No Shortness of breath for 2 days
2 4 mo Chest Extreme Trauma Yes High High No MVA 1 hour ago
3 9 yr Abd Moderate Routine No High High No Abdominal pain
4 18 mo Chest Mild Airway No Low Low Yes cough
5 6 yr Knee Extreme Fracture Yes Low High No Fall on playground 4 hours ago
6 17 yr Chest Extreme Trauma Yes High High Yes MVA
7 5 yr Abd Extreme Routine Yes Low Low No Acute onset abdominal pain
8 9 yr Rad/Ulna Extreme Fracture No Low High No Arm bent after soccer collision
9 5 wk Femur Extreme Fracture No High High No Fell off changing table
10 12 yr Knee Moderate Routine Yes High High No Knee pain
11 14 yr Tib/Fib Mild Routine No Low High No Lump adjacent to tibia
12 11 yr Foot Moderate Routine Yes Low Low No Stepped on nail 3 days ago, still has pain
13 16 yr L Spine Extreme Trauma Yes High Low Yes Fell off horse – back pain
14 18 mo Chest Mild Pneum No Low High No cough
15 17 yr Skull Mild Trauma Yes Low High Yes Bike accident
16 7 yr Chest Mild Trauma Yes Low High No Near drowning
17 6 yr Femur Mild Trauma Yes High High No Fall from tree
18 15 mo Airway Extreme Airway Yes Low Low Yes Severe stridor
19 18 mo Chest Mild Airway No Low Low Yes cough
20 12 yr Ankle Moderate Trauma Yes Low Low No Soccer collision
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Patient/Case Information Please Provide the Following:
Case #
Patient Age Type
Subjective Acuity
Medical Acuity
Patient Waiting
Patient Anxiety
Ref’g MD
Anxiety Add'l View? History
Urgency Score (100 = Extreme
1 = None)
Rank 5 Most
Urgent
1 18 wk Chest Mild Pneum No Low High No Shortness of breath for 2 days
2 4 mo Chest Extreme Trauma Yes High High No MVA 1 hour ago
3 9 yr Abd Moderate Routine No High High No Abdominal pain
4 18 mo Chest Mild Airway No Low Low Yes cough
5 6 yr Knee Extreme Fracture Yes Low High No Fall on playground 4 hours ago
6 17 yr Chest Extreme Trauma Yes High High Yes MVA
7 5 yr Abd Extreme Routine Yes Low Low No Acute onset abdominal pain
8 9 yr Rad/Ulna Extreme Fracture No Low High No Arm bent after soccer collision
9 5 wk Femur Extreme Fracture No High High No Fell off changing table
10 12 yr Knee Moderate Routine Yes High High No Knee pain
11 14 yr Tib/Fib Mild Routine No Low High No Lump adjacent to tibia
12 11 yr Foot Moderate Routine Yes Low Low No Stepped on nail 3 days ago, still has pain
13 16 yr L Spine Extreme Trauma Yes High Low Yes Fell off horse – back pain
14 18 mo Chest Mild Pneum No Low High No cough
15 17 yr Skull Mild Trauma Yes Low High Yes Bike accident
16 7 yr Chest Mild Trauma Yes Low High No Near drowning
17 6 yr Femur Mild Trauma Yes High High No Fall from tree
18 15 mo Airway Extreme Airway Yes Low Low Yes Severe stridor
19 18 mo Chest Mild Airway No Low Low Yes cough
20 12 yr Ankle Moderate Trauma Yes Low Low No Soccer collision
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Patient/Case Information Please Provide the Following:
Case #
Patient Age Type
Subjective Acuity
Medical Acuity
Patient Waiting
Patient Anxiety
Ref’g MD
Anxiety Add'l View? History
Urgency Score (100 = Extreme
1 = None)
Rank 5 Most
Urgent
1 18 wk Chest Mild Pneum No Low High No Shortness of breath for 2 days
2 4 mo Chest Extreme Trauma Yes High High No MVA 1 hour ago
3 9 yr Abd Moderate Routine No High High No Abdominal pain
4 18 mo Chest Mild Airway No Low Low Yes cough
5 6 yr Knee Extreme Fracture Yes Low High No Fall on playground 4 hours ago
6 17 yr Chest Extreme Trauma Yes High High Yes MVA
7 5 yr Abd Extreme Routine Yes Low Low No Acute onset abdominal pain
8 9 yr Rad/Ulna Extreme Fracture No Low High No Arm bent after soccer collision
9 5 wk Femur Extreme Fracture No High High No Fell off changing table
10 12 yr Knee Moderate Routine Yes High High No Knee pain
11 14 yr Tib/Fib Mild Routine No Low High No Lump adjacent to tibia
12 11 yr Foot Moderate Routine Yes Low Low No Stepped on nail 3 days ago, still has pain
13 16 yr L Spine Extreme Trauma Yes High Low Yes Fell off horse – back pain
14 18 mo Chest Mild Pneum No Low High No cough
15 17 yr Skull Mild Trauma Yes Low High Yes Bike accident
16 7 yr Chest Mild Trauma Yes Low High No Near drowning
17 6 yr Femur Mild Trauma Yes High High No Fall from tree
18 15 mo Airway Extreme Airway Yes Low Low Yes Severe stridor
19 18 mo Chest Mild Airway No Low Low Yes cough
20 12 yr Ankle Moderate Trauma Yes Low Low No Soccer collision
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Test #1: Intra-Physician Consistency
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Corroverall = 0.85
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Test #2: Inter-Physician Consistency
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Mean Urgency Rating (Over 3 Cases)
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Physician Selection
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Identified 5 representative docs: - Consistent decision-making - Within range of the majority - Highly experienced
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These 5 radiologists’ responses were then used for the algorithm development step
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Variable Management • Compared urgency means and distributions
across categories; some were combined: – Exam Type: 20 categories reduced to 2 – Medical Acuity: 5 categories reduced to 2 – Age: continuous variable dichotomized (<2, 2+) add age graph here
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Average urgency rating
Age (yr)
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Constructing the Triage Algorithm
• Stepwise OLS regression using 5 radiologists’ responses:
URGENCY = 12.31 * SUBJACU (.36) + 25.94 * PATWAIT (.13) + 15.98 * REFANX (.08) + 15.35 * PATANX (.05) + 28.45 * DUMTYPE (.05) + 9.70 * DUMYOUNG (.01)
F=35.52 (P<.0001) R2 = .70 Not included: DUMMEDAC ADDVIEW
But how well did it match our radiologists’ heuristics?
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Testing the Triage Algorithm • Prediction of rankings is primary metric:
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Actual ranking (radiologists)
Predicted ranking
(algorithm)
Corr = .87
|Act-Pre| # % 0 22 22 1 29 51 2 17 68 3 14 82 4 5 87 5 3 90 6 4 94 7 3 97 8 2 99 9 0 99 10 1 100
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Validation Survey
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Validating the Triage Algorithm Provided each of the 5 radiologists with a set of 10 randomly generated, pre-ranked cases…
Found that: – 3 of 5 docs made no changes or only swapped a
single pair of adjacent cases (e.g., 3rd ↔ 4th ) – 87% of all suggested changes were 1 or 2 places – Only two “large” changes: -4 and +5 (same doc) – Often used histories to substantiate changes
We’re still missing a key operational component…
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How to include patients’ waiting time?
Physician and department beliefs: • “Stat” patients:
– Should not wait >1 hour – A short (~10 minutes) initial wait should not
affect queue position • “Nonstat” patients:
– Should generally be served after stat patients – Can “get lost” among fast-moving stat cases
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Incorporating Wait Times
Stat Cases t in minutes
Nonstat Cases
2)60(7.
250 te
2)60(1.
200 tet in hours
Time adder =
Time adder =
Started with the Standard Normal CDF Scale Factor
Shape Factor
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Wait Time Adder Ac
uity
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Adde
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The Final Triage Algorithm
URGENCY = 12.31 * SUBJACU [3 levels]
+ 25.94 * PATWAIT + 15.98 * REFANX + 15.35 * PATANX + 28.45 * DUMTYPE + 9.70 * DUMYOUNG + Wait Time Adder {Stat or Nonstat}
Urgency scores range 0 – 370.04 for “stat” and 0 – 320.04 for “nonstat”
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Implementation
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RadStream: Radiology Workflow Management
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√ Radiologists Sign in to Services
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Radiologists Select, Assign, & Review Cases
• Cases are pre-sorted per the triage algorithm
• Physicians may still select any case in their service
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Completed Cases Automatically Routed to Call Center
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Results
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Changes to Workflow
• Tech answers 5 questions during imaging session • Paper requisitions eliminated • Waiting exams automatically triaged (sorted) • Enhanced visibility and coordination
– Improved load-leveling across radiologists • Expanded documentation of communications
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Overall Goals: • Ensure most critical patients are handled first • Reduce duration and variability of patient waiting
Baseline Sample: 6,093 exams, spanning 14 days
End Procedure 1
Radiologist Dictates
Radiologist Signs Off
Overall 55 Emergency 23 Outpatient 57 Inpatient 103
Findings Conveyed
Median (minutes)
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Post-implementation Sample: 7,493 exams, spanning 15 days
End Procedure 1
Radiologist Dictates
Overall 55 34
Emergency 23 23
Outpatient 57 35
Inpatient 103 60
Median (minutes)
Overall Goals: • Ensure most critical patients are handled first • Reduce duration and variability of patient waiting
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End Procedure 1
Radiologist Dictates
Overall 55 34
Emergency 23 23
Outpatient 57 35
Inpatient 103 60
430 356
233 185
485 350
381 490 Median
(minutes) Std. Dev. (minutes)
Overall Goals: • Ensure most critical patients are handled first • Reduce duration and variability of patient waiting
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11.8
2.4
15.1
1.6
Inter-Arrival (min.) Duration (min.)
BaselinePost-Implementation
Physician Interruptions Decreased
Significantly different at P<.05
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11.8
2.4
15.1
1.6
Inter-Arrival (min.) Duration (min.)
BaselinePost-Implementation
Physician Interruptions Decreased
Significantly different at P<.05
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Conclusions for Care Delivery
• Decision-making in healthcare settings isn’t always objective or rational
• Automating operational decision-making can be powerful – But sometimes the data you need don’t exist
• The benefits of efficiency are multiplicative
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Improving Care and Efficiency through Analytics: Automating Patient Triage in Radiology
Craig Froehle, PhD
University of Cincinnati Lindner College of Business Dept. of Operations, Business Analytics & Information Systems College of Medicine Dept. of Emergency Medicine
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence
[email protected] --- 513.556.7174