Staff and Facility Utilization in Direct Patient Transfer to the Comprehensive Stroke Center: Testing a Real-Time Location System for Automatic Patient Pathway Characterization.

Autor:	Moreira T; Department of Neurology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.; Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden., Furnica A; Philips Research, Eindhoven, Netherlands., Daemen E; Philips Research, Eindhoven, Netherlands., Mazya MV; Department of Neurology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.; Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden., Sjöstrand C; Department of Neurology, Danderyd Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden., Kaijser M; Department of Neuroradiology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden., van Loenen E; Philips Research, Eindhoven, Netherlands.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Frontiers in neurology [Front Neurol] 2021 Nov 24; Vol. 12, pp. 741551. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Nov 24 (Print Publication: 2021).
DOI:	10.3389/fneur.2021.741551
Abstrakt:	Introduction: Starting reperfusion therapies as early as possible in acute ischemic strokes are of utmost importance to improve outcomes. The Comprehensive Stroke Centers (CSCs) can use surveys, shadowing personnel or perform journal analysis to improve logistics, which can be labor intensive, lack accuracy, and disturb the staff by requiring manual intervention. The aim of this study was to measure transport times, facility usage, and patient-staff colocalization with an automated real-time location system (RTLS). Patients and Methods: We tested IR detection of patient wristbands and staff badges in parallel with a period when the triage of stroke patients was changed from admission to the emergency room (ER) to direct admission to neuroradiology. Results: In total, 281 patients were enrolled. In 242/281 (86%) of cases, stroke patient logistics could be detected. Consistent patient-staff colocalizations were detected in 177/281 (63%) of cases. Bypassing the ER led to a significant decrease in median time neurologists spent with patients (from 15 to 9 min), but to an increase of the time nurses spent with patients (from 13 to 22 min; p = 0.036). Ischemic stroke patients used the most staff time (median 25 min) compared to hemorrhagic stroke patients (median 13 min) and stroke mimics (median 15 min). Discussion: Time spent with patients increased for nurses, but decreased for neurologists after direct triage to the CSC. While lower in-hospital transport times were detected, time spent in neuroradiology (CT room and waiting) remained unchanged. Conclusion: The RTLS could be used to measure the timestamps in stroke pathways and assist in staff allocation. Competing Interests: AF and ED are employed by Philips Research. EL was previously employed by Philips Research and is now retired. Philips Research was involved in study design, equipment installation, data collection, and analysis, preparation of the manuscript and decision to submit for publication. The remaining authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. (Copyright © 2021 Moreira, Furnica, Daemen, Mazya, Sjöstrand, Kaijser and Loenen.)
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