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Date: 19 May 2013
Time: 04:35
UHB hosts European renal workshop
Story posted/last updated: 09 October 2012
Researchers from University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) hosted the second in a series of workshops on electronic prescribing on 2 – 3 October 2012. The workshop was made possible through funding from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), which was awarded to the trust in January 2010.
This workshop focussed specifically on the use of clinical decision support systems in the prevention and treatment of acute kidney injury (AKI) and chronic kidney disease (CKD).
Practitioner, patient and drug-related factors should be considered when designing appropriate decision support systems. However, due to the complexity of the interactions between these factors, designing a pan-European decision support system for AKI and CKD is a challenge that has yet to be conquered.
Experts from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, University College Dublin in Ireland, the University of Heidelberg in Germany, and across the UK attended the workshop. The group contained experts in various specialties, including clinical pharmacology, nephrology and pharmacy. This diversity allowed the group to discuss the issues at hand from a multitude of perspectives, which led to the generation of a number of interesting and important research ideas.
As a result of the workshop, plans have been put in place to publish an academic paper summarising the discussions on the use of clinical decision support in AKI and CKD. The group discussed the prospect of building a unified database - Kidney Alert Drug Decision Support (KADDS) – for drugs used in treating these conditions. The group will also attempt to gain EU funding to undertake further collaborative research with an overall aim to implement appropriate clinical decision support in hospitals across Europe, which in turn will help to improve practitioner performance and patient safety.
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