Digitizing Infectious Disease Clinical Guidelines for Improved Clinician Satisfaction

Abstract

The purpose of this project was to implement an improved rapid-deployment clinical decision support strategy for the detection and treatment of emerging and reemerging infectious diseases within an electronic health record informed by end-user satisfaction. After a review of the evidence and comprehensive workflow assessments, interdisciplinary focus groups were assembled to determine current infectious disease needs within the electronic health record and what guidance should be provided to clinicians to assist in making the best decisions for both patient care and population health. Education and reeducation issues were handled throughout the implementation process. Using the Plan-Do-Study-Act quality improvement framework for rapid cycle deployment, the design was implemented and monitored. To evaluate efficacy and clinician satisfaction of the implementation, presurvey and postsurvey measurements were employed. The Clinical Information System Implementation Evaluation Scale was used, along with demographic and qualitative textual questions, to evaluate clinician satisfaction. Findings indicate the implementation was successful (P < .05).

The goldmine of patient satisfaction-interaction and communication in the context of infectious diseases

“…Depending on the gravity of the illness, the global health coverage has faced critical challenges in the pandemic context and, unfortunately, it turned out to be unsuccessful in managing the chronic disease patients with pre-existing conditions such as heart diseases, high blood pressure, diabetes, and kidney disease [ 4 ]. During the COVID-19 pandemic, in developed countries, patient needs were managed by telemedicine, which nowadays became vital to delivering infection control methods and compliance to social distancing [ 5 ].…”