Aldrete score

[nf nurse]

I am the Director of Surgical Services at my hospital and Meditech is the system we use for documentation. Meditech notified us we will have to begin paying a copyright fee for use of the Aldrete scoring system or stop using it. Dr. Aldrete has decided to enforce the copyright for the use of the scoring system he developed. I am wondering what other facilities will be doing? Is there another scoring system out there for use? Will your facility be paying the fee? Thoughts?

[mrsrn.ms]

Our facility also received notice from Meditech that we would have to pay for using the Aldrete scoring system. It is interesting that I have only heard that Meditech clients have recieved this notice.

We are currently weighing our options.

[Ges757]

How were you notified? We use HSM to document but also use Meditech for handoff reports. Sounds similar to the "Braselow" issue.

[nf nurse]

We were notified via a task that this needs to be changed before our update the end of this month. I am looking for alternative scoring systems that are not similar to Aldrete. I need something in place.

[jennifer1000000]

Anyone else using EPIC that has had this issue?

[azhiker96, BSN, RN]

No issues where I am and we use Epic. Perhaps it was just a Meditech problem. MEDITECH - Post Anesthesia Recovery Score Copyright New

[ajdrn62]

It's not just Meditech; we use CPSI and we received notice also. I'm also looking for an alternative to the Aldrete system. Hope someone has a solution.

[HeySis, BSN, RN]

We were told the same thing, I found out when I started working here and wondered why the wording looked a bit different then what I was use too. :) I was told that they had to make their own scale to avoid paying for copy rights, when I wondered which area to score a patient I was "trained" to think of the Aldrete's and would they be a 0, 1 or 2 and to place the patient in the same (but differently worded) category.

Does that make sense?