TY - JOUR T1 - Patient Attendance Alert to Specialty System: An automatic alert to identify patients admitted with known chronic obstructive pulmonary disease JF - Future Healthcare Journal JO - Future Healthc J SP - 86 LP - 86 DO - 10.7861/futurehosp.6-1-s86 VL - 6 IS - Suppl 1 AU - Bhavna Pandya AU - Joseph Aslan AU - Gerard White AU - Paul Dudley AU - Julie Mcharron AU - Business Intelligence System, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and South Sefton CCG Y1 - 2019/03/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/6/Suppl_1/86.abstract N2 - An automatic generated alert identifying patients with known chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) on admission can help reduce length of stay and readmissions.Short message service (SMS) and email alerts were designed to be generated from a patient’s known coding diagnosis of COPD on admission. Ten plan, do, study, act cycles were carried out to filter the alerts to reduce the number of alerts generated to be only from the emergency department (ED) and acute medical unit (AMU). Additional filter of set phrases of respiratory … ER -