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

“程序检查表和评估广泛用于医疗保健，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和澄清适当的最佳步骤来减少不一致护理所导致的隐藏错误。尽管使检查表有效的重要性和挑战，大多数都是使用笔和纸进行的，并且仅以这种形式存储（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很差的保证。我们对该项目的愿景是通过开发智能手机应用程序来提高程序检查表和评估的有效性，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清单的最新版本，确保它们符合最新的指导方针（本地甚至国家）。供应商将能够收集、访问和查看关于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."