Effectiveness of a Mobile App (PIMPmyHospital) in Reducing Therapeutic Turnaround Times in an Emergency Department: Protocol for a Pre- and Posttest Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Delays in reviewing issued laboratory results in emergency departments (EDs) can adversely affect efficiency and quality of care. One opportunity to improve therapeutic turnaround time could be to provide real-time access to laboratory results on mobile devices available to every caregiver. We developed a mobile app named "Patients In My Pocket in my Hospital" (PIMPmyHospital) to help ED caregivers automatically obtain and share relevant information about the patients they care for including laboratory results.

Objective

This pre- and posttest study aims to explore whether the implementation of the PIMPmyHospital app impacts the timeliness with which ED physicians and nurses remotely access laboratory results while actively working in their real-world environment,

SUBMITTER: Ehrler F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10193207 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature