Understanding and applying practitioner and patient views on the implementation of a novel automated Computer-Aided Risk Score (CARS) predicting the risk of death following emergency medical admission to hospital: qualitative study

What is it about?

• This paper reports the involvement of practice staff and service users/carers in considering the implementation of the Computer Aided Risk Score (CARS) into clinical practice • Staff recognised such a score could enhance clinical decision making but wanted to understand the components of the score and be reassured about its accuracy • Service users and carers were cautious such a score might replace clinical judgement or contribute extra workload to hospital staff • Staff and service users/carers have offered important, complex insights which could support the implementation of risk scores into clinical practice

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