Patients with Serious Illness: Understanding and Using the Serious Illness Risk Indicator

Jun 10, 2022

Podcast Title: Patients with Serious Illness: Understanding and Using the Serious Illness Risk Indicator

 

Brief Summary: This podcast describes the Serious Illness Risk Indicator (SIRI), a UPMC tool which uses artificial intelligence and predictive analytics to display a patient’s risk of serious illness.  Dr. Bump and Schell discuss how to access and use SIRI and how SIRI can help UPMC  meet institutional goals, including decreasing hospital mortality, readmissions, and improving the patient experience. 

Learning Objectives:

 

1. Describe the Serious Illness Risk Indicator (SIRI), including interpretation and utility.

 

2. Understand how to access the SIRI where it can be accessed in the electronic medical record.

 

3. Understand how patient goals of care conversations improve the patient experience and is consistent with UPMC’s goals of decreasing hospital mortality, readmissions and improving the patient experience.

 

 

 

Speakers:

-Greg Bump, MD, Associate Dean, UPMC GME, Designated Institutional Official (DIO), Associate Professor, Internal Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA

 

-Jane Schell, MD, Associate Professor, Internal Medicine, Renal-Electrolyte Division and Section Palliative Care and Medical Ethics, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA

 

Course Directors:

-Greg Bump, MD, Associate Dean, UPMC GME, Designated Institutional Official (DIO), Associate Professor, Internal Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA

-Melinda Hamilton, MD, MS, Professor of Critical Care Medicine and Pediatrics, Program Director Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellowship, Co-Chair, UPMC GME Professional Development Subcommittee, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA

-Julie McCausland, MD, MS, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Medicine, Program Director, Transitional Year Residency Program, Co-Chair, UPMC GME Professional Development Subcommittee, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA

 

Moderator:

-Greg Bump, MD, Associate Dean, UPMC GME, Designated Institutional Official (DIO), Associate Professor, Internal Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA

 

CME Accreditation and Credit Designation

In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

The University of Pittsburgh designates this enduring activity for a maximum of 0.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit[s]™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

No members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services, used on, or consumed by, patients to disclose.

 

Instructions for receiving CME credit

 

Click here to receive CME credit, https://cce.upmc.com/content/upmc-gmecast-patients-serious-illness-understanding-and-using-serious-illness-risk-1#group-tabs-node-course-default1