Improving patient safety and clinical productivity by developing an app for procedural checklists and patient assessments

“程序性检查清单和评估在医疗保健中广泛使用，以确保临床医生坚持最佳实践，并为患者提供最安全的护理。这些检查可以通过支持决策制定和阐明适当的最佳步骤来减少由于不一致的护理引起的隐藏错误。尽管制作有效的清单很重要，也很困难，但大多数都是用笔和纸来完成的，而且只以这种形式存储（如果有的话）。这对患者的治疗结果产生了负面影响，降低了临床医生的工作效率，并为医疗保健提供者提供了较差的保障。我们对这个项目的愿景是通过开发一个智能手机应用程序来提高程序清单和评估的有效性、效率和保证。临床医生将能够在患者床边访问任何相关的检查表或评估，以确保他们正在正确地进行程序或评估，适应特定患者的情况。应用程序还允许远程更新任何最新版本的清单，确保它们符合最新的指导方针（当地甚至全国）。供应商将能够收集、访问和查看有关遵守的大量信息数据，以改善他们自己的决策和CQC检查的证据基础。”

"Procedural checklists and assessments are used extensively in healthcare to ensure clinicians adhere to best practise and provide the safest care to patients. These checks can reduce hidden errors caused by inconsistent care by supporting decision making and clarifying appropriate best steps.Despite the importance of and the challenges in making checklists effective, most are carried out using pen and paper, and only stored in this form (if at all). This negatively impacts patient outcomes, reduces the productivity of clinicians and provides poor assurance to healthcare providers. Our vision for this project is to improve the effectiveness, efficiency and assurance of procedural checklists and assessments by developing a smartphone application. Clinicians will be able to access any relevant checklist or assessment at the patient bedside to ensure they are conducting a procedure or assessment correctly, adaptable to the particular patient's case. An app would also allow the latest version of any checklist to be updated remotely, ensuring they work to the latest guidelines (local or even national). Providers will be able to collect, access and view hugely informative data around adherence to improve their own decision making and evidence base for CQC inspections."