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Can electronic health records improve patient admission in neurosurgery?
Können digitale Formulare die Patientenaufnahme in der Neurochirurgie verbessern?
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Veröffentlicht: | 8. Mai 2019 |
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Objective: Electronic health records (EHRs) are controversial but have the potential to improve patient care. We investigated whether a digital admission and assessment documentation form for neurosurgical patients may have an impact on the quality and duration of documentation of the neurosurgeons in charge.
Methods: The EHR was assessed with QNOTE and compared to prior paper-based documentation regarding the utilization of these medical notes for subsequent processes like dictation of medical discharge records.
Results: Implementation of EHR improved the quality of patient admission documentation significantly with a QNOTE mean grand score of 87±22 compared to prior handwritten form with 44±30 and reduced the time needed for documentation of admission forms and dictation of discharge records by 4 minutes. There was a clear correlation between a higher quality of documentation and a higher needed documentation time as well as higher quality of documentation and lower dictation times of discharge records.
Conclusion: Implementation of EHR improves the quality of patient admission documentation and reduced the time for documentation and dictation of discharge records in a neurosurgical clinic.