Enhanced Communication for Interhospital Transfers Increases Preparedness in an Academic Tertiary Care Center.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This quality improvement project sought to enhance clinical information sharing for interhospital transfers to an inpatient hepatology service comprised of internal medicine resident frontline providers (housestaff) with the specific aims of making housestaff aware of 100% of incoming transfers and providing timely access to clinical summaries.

Interventions

In February 2020, an email notification system to senior medicine residents responsible for patient triage shared planned arrival time for patients pending transfer. In July 2020, a clinical data repository ("Transfer Log") updated daily by accepting providers (attending physicians and subspecialty fellows) became available to senior medicine residents responsible for triage.

Methods

Likert scale survey

SUBMITTER: Leven EA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9433165 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature