'I've got a little list'-the scourge of a surgical junior. A quality improvement project to change the surgical patient list in a district general hospital.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Junior doctors at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital spend hours every day creating and updating patient lists for all surgical specialties on Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. This not only consumes time that should be spent on clinical tasks, it allows for human errors, system errors and patient safety concerns. Our aim was to reduce time spent on the list and reduce the chance for error.

Methods

We measured the time junior doctors spent creating and updating the surgical lists for one specialty, and on-call shifts. Our first Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle was to introduce clinical secretaries; this reduced the time spent by ward teams on the list but had no effect on the on-call team. We then worked with the hospital application developer to adapt software current

SUBMITTER: Khan H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7299038 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature