Not suprised. Not got any official data though.
How many of the old printed reports or urgent phoned results transcripts ever got brought to the attention of the appropriate clinician or were ever recorded in the notes. Those of us who do BMS on call will know how many times a result can wind up being phoned to essentially the same place.
Medicine by numbers. how many of our results are actually used??
Ian Hembling
Advanced BMS
Biochem Ipswich
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From: Clinical biochemistry discussion list on behalf of Tilbrook Louise (Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust)
Sent: Tue 21/07/2009 17:14
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Subject: Viewing of electronic reports
Our Trust recently moved to electronic order comms requesting for in-patients and we have just been reviewing the first few months data. One notable finding is the high proportion of reports which are not viewed/accessed - over 50% of reports to one of our emergency wards, for example, are never viewed. Some areas do still receive paper reports but there is an inevitable delay before these are despatched and it is doubtful whether they are received/acted on within a clinically relevant timeframe.
For those of you who are also using order comms, I would be grateful for your feedback and whether this parallels your experience.
Kind regards
Louise Tilbrook
Louise Tilbrook
Principal Clinical Scientist
Dept of Clinical Biochemistry
Mid Essex Hospitals NHS Trust
Chelmsford
CM1 7ET
01245 515036
07919 016847
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