Improving accessibility of trust guidelines and protocols at the Great Western Hospital, Swindon.

ABSTRACT: Trust guidelines and policies outline recommendations for the management of common clinical and non-clinical situations, serving to standardise best practice. Prior to this project, there was no consolidated location for these documents. Lack of organisational structure and inadequate search functionality within the trust intranet led to time wasted locating information, acting outside of recognised best practice, and ultimately potentially compromising patient safety. We surveyed 55 junior doctors, 95% of respondents were dependent on guidelines on a daily basis. 20% spending greater than 5 minutes to locate protocols and 38% unable to locate some relevant documents at all. We analysed the time taken for junior doctors to locate six randomly selected protocols. Pre-intervention mean time

SUBMITTER: Robertson I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4645844 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature