‘Who's Covering This Patient?’ Developing a First-Contact Provider (FCP) Designation in an Electronic Health Record
| Autor: | Jessica Kolek, Steven Zibrat, Anisha Chandiramani, Michelle Johnson, Dana P. Edelson, Janet Gervasio |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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First contact
Inpatients Inpatient care Leadership and Management business.industry Professional-Patient Relations Audit EPIC medicine.disease Proxy (climate) Hospitalization 03 medical and health sciences Patient safety 0302 clinical medicine Electronic health record 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Practice Guidelines as Topic medicine Electronic Health Records Humans In patient 030212 general & internal medicine Medical emergency business Quality of Health Care |
| Zdroj: | The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. 44:107-113 |
| ISSN: | 1553-7250 |
| Popis: | Background Safe and efficient inpatient care depends on accurate identification of the licensed independent practitioner (LIP) primarily responsible for each admitted patient. The inability to do so has far-reaching consequences, including poor communication among care teams, delays in patient care (including critical result reporting), and significant threats to patient safety. Methods At the University of Chicago Medical Center, an 800-bed academic hospital, a new Epic feature, called First-Contact Provider (FCP), was developed to identify the responsible LIP for each inpatient. The number of patients with only one designated FCP at a given time was audited daily. To ensure correct technical function, the number of Best Practice Advisories (BPAs) alerting of no documented FCP was measured. The number of inpatient critical lab values reported directly to LIPs was measured as a proxy for the accuracy of FCP in identifying the correct LIP. Results During the nine-month study period, the average daily inpatient census was 568 and the average monthly critical lab volume was 1,727. By the end of the study, the weekly mean percentage of patients with one FCP documented at noon reached 98.6%. The weekly mean number of BPAs dropped from 5,313/day to less than 50/day. The monthly mean percentage of critical results reported directly to LIPs increased from a pre-FCP baseline of 18.0% to 87.8%. Conclusion FCP largely solved the far-reaching problem of accurate LIP identification for hospitalized patients. This, in turn, significantly improved the ability to report inpatient critical lab values directly to LIPs. |
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