Implementing standardized provider documentation in a tertiary epilepsy clinic.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To incorporate standardized documentation into an epilepsy clinic and to use these standardized data to compare patients' perception of epilepsy diagnosis to provider documentation.

Methods

Using quality improvement methodology, we implemented interventions to increase documentation of epilepsy diagnosis, seizure frequency, and type from 49.8% to 70% of adult nonemployee patients seen by 6 providers over 5 months of routine clinical care. The main intervention consisted of an interactive SmartPhrase that mirrored a documentation template developed by the Epilepsy Learning Healthcare System. We assessed the weekly proportion of complete SmartPhrases among eligible patient encounters with a statistical process control chart. We used a subset of patients with establis

SUBMITTER: Jones FJS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7455323 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature