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- Title
Radiologists Help Each Other to Improve Efficiency by Decreasing the Time to Look Up a Patient's Relevant Clinical History in the Electronic Medical Record.
- Authors
Shafique, Umber; Hillis, Stephen L.; Park, Jinha M.; Kuehn, David M.; Rajput, Maheen
- Abstract
The study aims to prove that it takes less time to look up relevant clinical history from an electronic medical record (EMR) if the information is already provided in a specific space in the EMR by a fellow radiologist. Patients with complex oncological and surgical histories need frequent imaging, and every time a radiologist may spend a significant amount of time looking up the same clinical information as their peers. In collaboration with ACMIO and Radiant Epic team, a space labeled "Specialty Comments" was added to the SNAPSHOT of patient's chart in EMR. For our research purpose, the specialty comment was labeled as boxed history as a variable for data analysis. If the history was not provided in that particular space, it was labeled as without boxed history. Inclusion criteria included outpatients with complex oncological histories undergoing CT chest, abdomen, and pelvis with IV contrast. The time to look up history (LUT) was documented in minutes and seconds. Two assistant professors from Abdominal Imaging provided LUT. A total of 85 cases were included in the study, 39 with boxed history and 46 without boxed history. Comparing averages of the individual reader means for history, mean LUT differed by 2.03 min (without boxed history) versus 0.57 min (with boxed history), p < 0.0001. The t-test and the nonparametric Wilcoxon tests for a difference in the population means were highly significant (p < 0.0001). A history directed to radiologist's needs resulted in a statistically significant decrease in time spent by interpreting radiologists to look through the electronic medical records for patients with complex oncological histories. Availability of history pertinent to radiology has wide-ranging advantages, including quality reporting, decrease in turnaround time, reduction in interpretation errors, and radiologists' continued learning. The space for documenting clinical history may be reproduced, or some similar area may be developed by optimizing the electronic medical records.
- Subjects
LABOR productivity; CONFIDENCE intervals; ANALYSIS of variance; TIME; INFORMATION resources management; T-test (Statistics); INTERPROFESSIONAL relations; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; ELECTRONIC health records; DATA analysis software
- Publication
Journal of Digital Imaging, 2023, Vol 36, Issue 2, p388
- ISSN
0897-1889
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10278-022-00726-4