ORDER SETS

Saving Lives, Time and Money

Medical knowledge is typically contained in guidelines, text books, medical rounds, web pages, pamphlets, etc.

None of this “Referential Knowledge” directly drives the care of patients

Knowledge Translation: Typical Approach

Most treatments provided to patients in hospitals require a physicians order

A doctor will create free text orders completely from memory on a blank order form and submit to nurse for execution

A Doctor’s Order: An Essential Step in Hospital Care

HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONS ARE COMPLEX

Emergency Room

Hospital Pharmacy

Radiology

Intensive Care Unit

Laboratory and Blood Work

Discharge

MODULE: ORDER SET BUILDING BLOCK

ORDER SET BENEFITS

Improve Quality

– Durable benefit that increases over time

– All areas of the organization

– Any process impacted by orders

Save Time!

– Builds capacity and leads to adoption

– Clinician satisfaction

Improved Resource Utilization

– Foundation for successful Computerized Physician Order Entry

THE CHECKLIST MANIFESTO BY DR. ATUL GAWANDE

“It’s just too easy for an otherwise competent doctor to miss a step, or forget to ask a question or, in the stress and pressure of the moment, to fail to plan properly for every eventuality.

Dr. Atul Gawande visits with pilots and the people who build skyscrapers and comes back with a solution. Experts need checklists. Literally, written guides that walk them through the key steps in any complex procedure.”

Author Malcolm Gladwell’s review of New York Times Bestseller“The Checklist Manifesto”

by Dr. Atul Gawande

CHECKLISTS ENSURE AVIATION IS ONE OF THE SAFEST INDUSTRIES

USA: 100,000 preventable hospital deaths per year. Equivalent to one major plane crash per day.

Canada: 10,000 preventable hospital deaths per year. Equivalent to one major plane crash per week.

By implementing an order set solution, Grey Bruce Health Network was able to:Reduce its average length of stay from 5.9 days to 4.7 daysReduce its rate of re-admissions with an unrelated diagnosis within one week from 4.8% to 2.5%

Order Set Content

– Evidence based and best practice

– Up to date

– Workflow!

– Standardization

Order Set Project

– Engage physicians

– Consensus without wasting time

– Support entire team

Order Set Management Software

– Track and update content across the organization

Order Set Completion

– At point of care

Order Set Data

– Real time

– Provider and organizational data

– Tool for engagement

“Standardize that which is routine about patient care

so that the clinician can focus on what is unique

about the individual”

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