Information Needs Assessment for a Medicine Ward-Focused Rounding Dashboard.
To identify the routine information needs of inpatient clinicians on the general wards for the development of an electronic dashboard. Survey of internal medicine and subspecialty clinicians from March 2014-July 2014 at Saint Marys Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota. An information needs assessment was generated from all unique data elements extracted from all handoff and rounding tools used by clinicians in our ICUs and general wards. An electronic survey was distributed to 104 inpatient medical providers. 89 unique data elements were identified from currently utilized handoff and rounding instruments. All data elements were present in our multipurpose ICU-based dashboard. 42 of 104 (40 %) surveys were returned. Data elements important (50/89, 56 %) and unimportant (24/89, 27 %) for routine use were identified. No significant differences in data element ranking were observed between supervisory and nonsupervisory roles. The routine information needs of general ward clinicians are a subset of data elements used routinely by ICU clinicians. Our findings suggest an electronic dashboard could be adapted from the critical care setting to the general wards with minimal modification.
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, 200 First St SW, Rochester, MN, USA. aakre.christopher@mayo.edu.
Christopher A
CA
Aakre
Division of Primary Care Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
Rajeev
R
Chaudhry
Department of Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
Brian W
BW
Pickering
Department of Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.|Multidisciplinary Epidemiology and Translation Research in Intensive Care (METRIC), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
Vitaly
V
Herasevich
D006739:Hospital Administration / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007362:Intensive Care Units / Q000458:organization & administration; D020380:Needs Assessment; D062209:Patient Handoff / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014584:User-Computer Interface
Electronic dashboard; Handoff; Health information technology; Needs assessment; Rounding