Therefore, this category is divided into organizational improvements (e.g., improved documentation or process automation) and medical improvements.
To improve documentation and resulting quality improvement, we recommend the revision of the neonatology patient chart and onsite training/supervision.
We hypothesized that a progress note template containing comorbidities and complications would improve documentation and teach residents to correctly document comorbidities and complications.
In a separate performance improvement project, however, we had markedly improved documentation of aspirin and beta-blocker use in chest pain patients using a CDSS with a single reminder phrase just above the "ENTER" button of a given HPI template.
This study aimed to implement a multidisciplinary quality improvement project in Perth Royal Infirmary A&E department to improve documentation of visual acuity (VA) in patients presenting with ocular injury.
A strategy involving simple structural improvements, in-service training opportunities, effective team-based mentoring, and improved documentation has the potential to strengthen the capacity of the providers to care for vulnerable newborn babies.
Although this study shows that CDS can improve documentation, further study is needed to determine if it results in improved care.
In addition, we have evaluated the categories of MDT decisions that have not been documented to highlight which areas are most frequently overlooked to help improve documentation accuracy in the future.
Improved documentation, it's hoped, will be critical in holding perpetrators to account.
Hospitals that lost money from the failure of HIP Health Plan of New Jersey Inc. would receive $54 million from a state bailout package negotiated last week, and the state is expecting that improved documentation by hospitals of their treatment of Medicare patients would produce an increase of $100 million in federal reimbursements.
