Use of a Pediatric Admission Booklet Significantly Improves the Comprehensiveness of Admission Documentation: A Quality Improvement Project.

ABSTRACT: At present, doctors in some tertiary pediatric hospitals across the United Kingdom record admission on blank continuation sheets rather than using a specific admission document. Previous evidence from adult medicine shows that using admission booklets to prompt the admitting doctor improves the thoroughness of admission documentation, but no work has evaluated this in pediatrics.

Methods

Documentation standards for pediatric admissions were created using national standards. We performed a baseline audit of admissions documented on blank continuation sheets. We included 120 patient admissions across pediatric medicine, pediatric surgery, and pediatric orthopedics (40 from each specialty). We introduced an admission booklet for each specialty, which contained prompts for documenting e

SUBMITTER: Beverstock A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7056295 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan-Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature