Effect of digital tools to promote hospital quality and safety on adverse events after discharge.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Post-discharge adverse events (AEs) are common and heralded by new and worsening symptoms (NWS). We evaluated the effect of electronic health record (EHR)-integrated digital tools designed to promote quality and safety in hospitalized patients on NWS and AEs after discharge.

Materials and methods

Adult general medicine patients at a community hospital were enrolled. We implemented a dashboard which clinicians used to assess safety risks during interdisciplinary rounds. Post-implementation patients were randomized to complete a discharge checklist whose responses were incorporated into the dashboard. Outcomes were assessed using EHR review and 30-day call data adjudicated by 2 clinicians and analyzed using Poisson regression. We conducted comparisons of each exposu

SUBMITTER: Vasudevan A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11413445 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature