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Lessons learned from the introduction of an electronic safety net to enhance test result management in an Australian mothers’ hospital

This study describes the implementation and impact of an electronic test result acknowledgement (RA) system in the Mater Mothers’ Hospital in Brisbane, Australia. The Verdi application electronically records clinicians’ acknowledgement of the review of results. Hospital data (August 2011–August 2012...

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Autores principales: Georgiou, Andrew, Lymer, Sharyn, Forster, Megan, Strachan, Michael, Graham, Sara, Hirst, Geof, Callen, Joanne, Westbrook, Johanna I
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4215041/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24598829
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/amiajnl-2013-002466
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author Georgiou, Andrew
Lymer, Sharyn
Forster, Megan
Strachan, Michael
Graham, Sara
Hirst, Geof
Callen, Joanne
Westbrook, Johanna I
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description This study describes the implementation and impact of an electronic test result acknowledgement (RA) system in the Mater Mothers’ Hospital in Brisbane, Australia. The Verdi application electronically records clinicians’ acknowledgement of the review of results. Hospital data (August 2011–August 2012) were extracted to measure clinicians’ acknowledgement practices. There were 27 354 inpatient test results for 6855 patients. All test results were acknowledged. 60% (95% CI 59% to 61%) of laboratory and 44% (95% CI 40% to 48%) of imaging results were acknowledged within 24 h. The median time between report availability and acknowledgement was 18.1 h for laboratory and 1 day 18 h for imaging results. The median time from when a result was first viewed to its acknowledgement was 7 min for laboratory and 1 min for imaging results. The longest recorded time to acknowledgement was 38 days. Electronic RA provides a safety net to enhance test result management.
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spelling pubmed-42150412014-11-03 Lessons learned from the introduction of an electronic safety net to enhance test result management in an Australian mothers’ hospital Georgiou, Andrew Lymer, Sharyn Forster, Megan Strachan, Michael Graham, Sara Hirst, Geof Callen, Joanne Westbrook, Johanna I J Am Med Inform Assoc Brief Communication This study describes the implementation and impact of an electronic test result acknowledgement (RA) system in the Mater Mothers’ Hospital in Brisbane, Australia. The Verdi application electronically records clinicians’ acknowledgement of the review of results. Hospital data (August 2011–August 2012) were extracted to measure clinicians’ acknowledgement practices. There were 27 354 inpatient test results for 6855 patients. All test results were acknowledged. 60% (95% CI 59% to 61%) of laboratory and 44% (95% CI 40% to 48%) of imaging results were acknowledged within 24 h. The median time between report availability and acknowledgement was 18.1 h for laboratory and 1 day 18 h for imaging results. The median time from when a result was first viewed to its acknowledgement was 7 min for laboratory and 1 min for imaging results. The longest recorded time to acknowledgement was 38 days. Electronic RA provides a safety net to enhance test result management. BMJ Publishing Group 2014-11 2014-03-05 /pmc/articles/PMC4215041/ /pubmed/24598829 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/amiajnl-2013-002466 Text en Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://group.bmj.com/group/rights-licensing/permissions This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 3.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
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Graham, Sara
Hirst, Geof
Callen, Joanne
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Lessons learned from the introduction of an electronic safety net to enhance test result management in an Australian mothers’ hospital
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title_short Lessons learned from the introduction of an electronic safety net to enhance test result management in an Australian mothers’ hospital
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4215041/
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