ESIMPLER: A Dynamic, Electronic Health Record-Integrated Checklist for Clinical Decision Support During PICU Daily Rounds.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Design, implement, and evaluate a rounding checklist with deeply embedded, dynamic electronic health record integration.

Design

Before-after quality-improvement study.

Setting

Quaternary PICU in an academic, free-standing children's hospital.

Patients

All patients in the PICU during daily morning rounds.

Interventions

Implementation of an updated dynamic checklist (eSIMPLER) providing clinical decision support prompts with display of relevant data automatically pulled from the electronic health record.

Measurements and main results

The prior daily rounding checklist, eSIMPLE, was implemented for 49,709 patient-days (7,779 patients) between October 30, 2011, and October 7, 2018. eSIMPLER was implemented for 5,306 patient-days (971 patien

SUBMITTER: Geva A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8490208 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature