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Psychiatric Inpatient Admissions–- Improving Handover Standards

AIMS: Within NHS Ayrshire and Arran for psychiatric inpatient admissions, the admitting clinician is to directly handover clinical details and relevant aspects of mental state, risk and management plan to the inpatient duty doctor. Over 2022, there was concerns this process was not being followed, r...

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Autores principales: Barrett, Megan, Fraser, Sam
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10345531/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2023.254
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description AIMS: Within NHS Ayrshire and Arran for psychiatric inpatient admissions, the admitting clinician is to directly handover clinical details and relevant aspects of mental state, risk and management plan to the inpatient duty doctor. Over 2022, there was concerns this process was not being followed, resulting in prescription errors, difficulty in assessing risk at admission and difficulty in prioritising workload. The aim of the project was to first assess pre-intervention rates of handover for inpatient admissions. Then with these data, look for interventions. The final aim was to re-asses post-intervention, analysing if interventions improved rates of handover. METHODS: Pre-intervention quantitative data were gathered over a three week period in April 2022, with Junior Doctors noting for admissions to Woodland View Psychiatric Hospital whether handover had been received, or if the Duty Doctor had been alerted at all to the admission prior to patient's arrival on the ward. Qualitative data were also gathered, specifically asking what factors admitting clinicians found impacted ability to handover. Data were presented at the monthly division of psychiatry meeting, and subsequently interventions were discussed in a meeting with Hospital bed managers, Hospital co-coordinators and the clinical director for inpatient care. The outcome resulted in change to the local hospital admission protocol, with bed managers prompting the importance of handover, and transferring admitting clinician's phone calls to the duty doctor at the time admissions are accepted by bed managers. Post-Intervention, the same criteria assessed in April 2022 was reassessed in January 2023. RESULTS: Pre-intervention, of 25 admissions, a handover was provided for 32% of patients. Duty doctor was alerted to 52% of admissions prior to the patient's arrival on the ward. Post-intervention, this increased to 71% and 82% respectively for 17 patients admitted in January 2023. Qualitative themes thought to impact ability of handover were admitting clinicians feeling there was already a number of calls made when admitting, and one with duty doctor could be neglected. Secondly the clinicians thought another member of the team would alert duty doctor of admissions. CONCLUSION: The project met its aims, showing pre-intervention rates of handover as low, and post-intervention rates rising after the admission process was changed, taking on the feedback from admitting clinicians. Given rates remain still significantly below 100%, there is still further work to be done. Results are due to be shared again with bed managers and at division to discuss further interventions.
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spelling pubmed-103455312023-07-15 Psychiatric Inpatient Admissions–- Improving Handover Standards Barrett, Megan Fraser, Sam BJPsych Open Quality Improvement AIMS: Within NHS Ayrshire and Arran for psychiatric inpatient admissions, the admitting clinician is to directly handover clinical details and relevant aspects of mental state, risk and management plan to the inpatient duty doctor. Over 2022, there was concerns this process was not being followed, resulting in prescription errors, difficulty in assessing risk at admission and difficulty in prioritising workload. The aim of the project was to first assess pre-intervention rates of handover for inpatient admissions. Then with these data, look for interventions. The final aim was to re-asses post-intervention, analysing if interventions improved rates of handover. METHODS: Pre-intervention quantitative data were gathered over a three week period in April 2022, with Junior Doctors noting for admissions to Woodland View Psychiatric Hospital whether handover had been received, or if the Duty Doctor had been alerted at all to the admission prior to patient's arrival on the ward. Qualitative data were also gathered, specifically asking what factors admitting clinicians found impacted ability to handover. Data were presented at the monthly division of psychiatry meeting, and subsequently interventions were discussed in a meeting with Hospital bed managers, Hospital co-coordinators and the clinical director for inpatient care. The outcome resulted in change to the local hospital admission protocol, with bed managers prompting the importance of handover, and transferring admitting clinician's phone calls to the duty doctor at the time admissions are accepted by bed managers. Post-Intervention, the same criteria assessed in April 2022 was reassessed in January 2023. RESULTS: Pre-intervention, of 25 admissions, a handover was provided for 32% of patients. Duty doctor was alerted to 52% of admissions prior to the patient's arrival on the ward. Post-intervention, this increased to 71% and 82% respectively for 17 patients admitted in January 2023. Qualitative themes thought to impact ability of handover were admitting clinicians feeling there was already a number of calls made when admitting, and one with duty doctor could be neglected. Secondly the clinicians thought another member of the team would alert duty doctor of admissions. CONCLUSION: The project met its aims, showing pre-intervention rates of handover as low, and post-intervention rates rising after the admission process was changed, taking on the feedback from admitting clinicians. Given rates remain still significantly below 100%, there is still further work to be done. Results are due to be shared again with bed managers and at division to discuss further interventions. Cambridge University Press 2023-07-07 /pmc/articles/PMC10345531/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2023.254 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This does not need to be placed under each abstract, just each page is fine.
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