Frequent Mobile Electronic Medical Records Users Respond More Quickly to Emergency Department Consultation Requests: Retrospective Quantitative Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Specialty consultation is a critical aspect of emergency department (ED) practice, and a delay in providing consultation might have a significant clinical effect and worsen ED overcrowding. Although mobile electronic medical records (EMR) are being increasingly used and are known to improve the workflow of health care providers, limited studies have evaluated their effectiveness in real-life clinical scenarios.

Objective

For this study, we aimed to determine the association between response duration to an ED specialty consultation request and the frequency of mobile EMR use.

Methods

This retrospective study was conducted in an academic ED in Seoul, South Korea. We analyzed EMR and mobile EMR data from May 2018 to December 2018. Timestamps of ED consultation

SUBMITTER: Jung KY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7055754 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature