Electronic inpatient whiteboards: Improving multidisciplinary communication and coordination of care

Wong, Hannah J.; Caesar, Michael; Bandali, Salim; Agnew, James; Abrams, Howard

doi:10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2008.07.012

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“…The last two columns in Table 1 list the corresponding names of high-level activities that caused the low-level events as well as an identifier uniquely identifying the execution of the activity, i.e., the activity instance. For example, we know that in the context of a shift change events CS1 and CS0 are recorded when the patient is visited in the normal routine, i.e., events e 12 , e 13 , e 14 correspond to one execution (i.e., instance 1) of the high-level activity Shift. This mapping between low-level events and high-level activity instances cannot be solely done on the activity names.…”

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“…Digital whiteboard systems are used to improve health care processes by raising situation awareness among nurses and to support coordination of care [13]. In our case, the whiteboard is used to manage information about admitted patients.…”

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“…Attribute Nurse is recorded as # L Nurse (e 12 ) = NurseA. Next, two low-level activities CallSignal1 (CS1) and CallSignal0 (CS0) are registered as events e 13 and e 14 by a call signal system, which is integrated with the whiteboard. An hour later the call signal system records the activity CallSignal4 (CS4) as event e 20 and, again, activity CS1 as event e 21 .…”

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“…Lightweight IT solutions have recently shown promising in supporting cross-functional processes in complex settings, for instance by improving organizational visibility of treatment statuses [9,26,28] as well as patient coordination care [29]. These studies primary focus, however, is improved coordination within a particular department.…”

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Creating Coordinative Paths from admission to discharge: The role of lightweight IT in hospital digital process innovation

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Siebenherz³

2018

Proceedings of the 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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“…In addition, the information on the electronic whiteboard could be accessed from all computers in the ED and thus did not require visiting the coordination centers. Electronic ED whiteboards have specifically been found to improve the communication and coordination of care [10], make work more efficient [11], improve ED clinicians' overview of their work and make information available where and when needed [12], and may therefore be hypothesized to reduce noise levels by replacing some ephemeral, oral information with permanent, visual information.…”

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Noise Levels in Two Emergency DepartmentsBefore and After the Introduction of Electronic Whiteboards

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2013

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Abstract:Purpose: Hospital work generates noise. This article investigates the noise level in emergency departments (EDs) to assess the need to address this aspect of the work environment and to investigate whether the replacement of dryerase with electronic whiteboards lowers the noise level.Method: In Study I we measured the noise level at the three coordination centers of an ED while it was still using dryerase whiteboards and after it had switched to electronic whiteboards. In Study II we made similar noise measurements at another ED, supplemented with observation. Results:The median daily equivalent continuous noise levels were 60.0, 55.3, and 55.4 dB(A) at the three coordination centers in Study I and 56.5 dB(A) at the coordination center in Study II. In both studies the noise levels were higher during workdays than weekends and higher during day and evening shifts than during night shifts. The maximum equivalent continuous noise levels across 1 second were above 80 dB(A) at all four coordination centers. At two of the centers above 80 dB(A) noises also occurred at night. After the introduction of electronic whiteboards the noise level was lowered at one ED but unchanged at the other ED. The main noise sources at the ED in Study II were clinicians talking, phones ringing, and equipment being moved around. Conclusion:The noise level at both EDs is above levels previously found to decrease the quality of work, increase the strain on the staff, or both. The transition from dry-erase to electronic whiteboards gave mixed results with respect to alleviating the noise problems.

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Electronic inpatient whiteboards: Improving multidisciplinary communication and coordination of care

Cited by 71 publications

References 32 publications

From Low-Level Events to Activities - A Pattern-Based Approach

From Low-Level Events to Activities - A Pattern-Based Approach

Creating Coordinative Paths from admission to discharge: The role of lightweight IT in hospital digital process innovation

Noise Levels in Two Emergency DepartmentsBefore and After the Introduction of Electronic Whiteboards

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