Real-Time Intraoperative Consultation Reporting in the Electronic Health Record.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We sought to make pathologists' intraoperative consultation (IOC) results immediately available to the surgical team, other clinicians, and laboratory medicine colleagues to improve communication and decrease postanalytic errors.

Methods

We created an IOC report in our stand-alone laboratory information system that could be signed out prior to, and independent of, the final report, and transfer immediately to the electronic health record (EHR) as a preliminary diagnosis. We evaluated two metrics: preliminary (IOC) result review in the EHR by clinicians and postanalytic errors.

Results

We assessed 2,886 IOC orders from the first 22 months after implementation. Clinicians reviewed 1,956 (68%) of the IOC results while in preliminary status, including 1,399 (48

SUBMITTER: Klein ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7403756 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature