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- Title
Therapy plans for therapeutic apheresis in Epic HealthLink.
- Authors
Jain, Vansh S.; Li, Huihua; Lee, Kristin P.; Rose, William Nicholas
- Abstract
Background: A common required duty of pathology resident physicians while rotating on transfusion medicine is the medical oversight of the therapeutic apheresis service. A task often performed on this clinical medicine service is formulating and writing orders for therapeutic apheresis procedures. The EpicCare tool called the therapy plan provides unique advantages over a standard electronic order set for therapeutic apheresis. Materials and Methods: Transfusion medicine physicians, apheresis nurses, pharmacists, and information technology professionals collaborated to create therapy plans for three therapeutic apheresis procedures: plasmapheresis, red cell exchange, and photopheresis. Results: Therapy plans were implemented and have been well‐received for several years. Over a six‐year time period, a total of 613 therapy plans were created and signed. We speculate that this implementation may have increased both physician efficiency and patient safety. Conclusion: This article reports our experience using therapy plans in EpicCare in order to raise awareness of this tool and to serve as an encouragement for wider adoption.
- Subjects
HEMAPHERESIS; PLASMAPHERESIS; INFORMATION technology; BLOOD transfusion; INFORMATION professionals; ERYTHROCYTES; PHYSICIANS; CLINICAL medicine
- Publication
Journal of Clinical Apheresis, 2023, Vol 38, Issue 5, p611
- ISSN
0733-2459
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/jca.22072