Sentence examples for consultant rounds from inspiring English sources

They found most wards had senior doctors conducting ward rounds five days a week and almost half provided consultant rounds seven days a week.

The dependent and complex nature of the patients on our unit has meant that daily consultant rounds, the promotion of multi-disciplinary input and active engagement in treatment and discharge planning has been the standard for many years.

After this the number and seniority of reviews differs per ward but in general consultant wards rounds occur 2 – 3 times weekly and registrar ward rounds once to twice weekly, the patient is reviewed on a daily basis on week days by a FY1, 2 or CMT trainee.

Despite twice-daily consultant ward rounds of all new acute admissions and the addition of a third 4 00 pm round from Monday to Friday, only 62% of patients were seen by a consultant within 12 hours.

25 The current study aims to look at the impact of twice-daily consultant ward rounds on the number of investigations performed and the pharmacy costs compared with the traditional twice-weekly ward rounds.

A review in Northern Ireland earlier this year found disparities in out-of-hours hospital care, compared to weekdays, and said specialist consultant ward rounds and formal weekend handovers were needed.

Consultant ward rounds were attended, and nurses observed preparing and administering vancomycin and gentamicin.

Additionally, in July 2011 the unit adopted a ward-based clinical team structure with twice daily consultant ward rounds.

Our previous study demonstrated that twice-daily consultant ward rounds reduce inpatient length of stay and suggested a reduction in overuse of investigations and medications.

This study aims to assess the impact of daily consultant ward rounds on the use of investigations and medications and estimate the potential cost benefit.

7 35 In our previous study, 23 we compared the impact of daily consultant ward rounds on LoS between our and two other wards with similar case load and demonstrated halving of the LoS on our wards, whereas, the LoS essentially remained unchanged on those two wards practising the traditional twice-weekly consultant ward rounds.