Anna Krupp
University of Iowa, IA·Medicine & Clinical Research
Patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) often spend long stretches in bed. Many leave the hospital less able to care for themselves, a problem called hospital-acquired functional decline.
- Fields
Medicine & Clinical Research
Public Health & Epidemiology
Computer Science
- Topics
intensive care unit
critical care
early mobility
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Mar 2029
What they work on
- Develop a clinical decision support system prototype in the electronic health record that identifies ICU patients suitable for physical activity, using clinician interviews and user-centered design.
- Identify clinical workflow considerations, potential barriers and implementation strategies for introducing the ICU mobility decision support tool.
- Evaluate the decision support tool's usability, cognitive workload, acceptability and effect on activity guideline adoption in a simulated EHR environment.
- Test the feasibility and effectiveness of the decision support tool for adopting activity guidelines on two ICU units in a tertiary care hospital.
More about the research
Getting patients moving early can help prevent it, and guidelines for ICU physical activity exist. Even so, clinicians struggle to spot which patients are ready for activity at any given moment. Critical illness changes quickly, and the needed information is scattered across many screens of the electronic health record (EHR). The project asks whether a well-designed clinical decision support system (CDSS), a tool in the EHR that pulls patient data together with guideline recommendations, can help ICU teams identify suitable patients and coordinate activity plans.
Why it matters
Critically ill patients who lose function in the ICU face longer recoveries and higher costs. A decision support tool that flags patients ready for mobility interventions could help ICU clinicians deliver evidence-based activity care sooner. It could shorten bedrest and reduce hospital-acquired functional decline, making ICU care safer and higher quality.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
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The school
University of Iowa: 32 labs on PI Pages, $703M a year on research, 418 research doctorates a year.
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