scholarly journals COVID-19 and Open Notes: A New Method to Enhance Patient Safety and Trust (Preprint)

10.2196/29314 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte Blease ◽  
Liz Salmi ◽  
Maria Hagglund ◽  
Deborah Wachenheim ◽  
Catherine DesRoches
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
New Method ◽  
Enhance Patient Safety

scholarly journals COVID-19 and Open Notes: A New Method to Enhance Patient Safety and Trust (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte Blease ◽  
Liz Salmi ◽  
Maria Hagglund ◽  
Deborah Wachenheim ◽  
Catherine DesRoches
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
New Method ◽  
Electronic Records ◽  
Patient Access ◽  
Test Results ◽  
The Us ◽  
Enhance Patient Safety ◽  
21St Century Cures Act

UNSTRUCTURED From April 5, 2021, as part of the 21st Century Cures Act, all providers in the US must offer patients access to the medical information housed in their electronic records. Via secure health portals, patients can login to access lab and test results, lists of prescribed medications, referral appointments, and the narrative reports written by clinicians (so-called ‘open notes’). As US providers implement this practice innovation, we describe six promising ways in which patient access to their notes might help address problems that either emerged with, or were exacerbated, by the COVID-19 pandemic

Critical Values in Anatomic Pathology

2006 ◽  
Vol 130 (5) ◽  
pp. 638-640 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan F. Silverman ◽  
Telma C. Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Improve Patient Safety ◽  
Clinical Pathology ◽  
Critical Values ◽  
Surgical Pathology ◽  
Anatomic Pathology ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Enhance Patient Safety ◽  
Pathology Reports ◽  
Improve Patient

Abstract Similar to critical values (CVs) in clinical pathology, occasional diagnoses in surgical pathology and cytology could require immediate notification of the physician to rapidly initiate treatment. However, there are no established CV guidelines in anatomic pathology. A retrospective review of surgical pathology reports was recently conducted to study the incidence of CVs in surgical pathology and to survey the perceptions of pathologists and clinicians about CVs in surgical pathology, with a similar analysis of CVs performed in cytology. The results indicated that CVs in surgical pathology and cytology are uncommon but not rare and that there is a wide range of opinion among pathologists and between pathologists and clinicians about the need for an immediate telephone call and about the degree of urgency. It was obvious from the study that there is a lack of consensus in identifying what constitutes surgical pathology and cytology CV cases. Since the Institute of Medicine's report on medical errors, there has been an increasing number of initiatives to improve patient safety. Having guidelines for anatomic pathology CVs could enhance patient safety, in contrast to the current practice in which CV cases are managed based on common sense and on personal experience. Therefore, a discussion involving the pathology community might prove useful in an attempt to establish anatomic pathology CV guidelines that could represent a practice improvement.

Methods to Characterize Operating Room Variables in Robotic Surgery to Enhance Patient Safety

2016 ◽  
pp. 215-223
Author(s):  
Anthony M. Composto ◽  
Luke A. Reisner ◽  
Abhilash K. Pandya ◽  
David A. Edelman ◽  
Katrina L. Jacobs ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Robotic Surgery ◽  
Operating Room ◽  
Enhance Patient Safety
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