Utilizing Data Reporting for Transport Research

When implementing an electronic patient care record, clinical documentation is always the first thing leaders consider, and for some it may be the only consideration. As a hospital-based neonatal and pediatric critical care transport team, we needed the ease of offline field documentation as well as the clinical complexity of ICU level care and access to inpatient records. However, it was also vital that we have the ability to report and analyze data for both quality and research purposes. Once ImageTrend Elite was implemented as our ePCR, we began to fully utilize Report Writer. We built daily, weekly, and monthly reports that drive our quality program, as well as volume reporting and projections. With robust data reporting, the possibility of a retrospective study became possible. Growth & Planning As our organization’s call volume increased substantially, we were planning a programmatic expansion and wanted to move from a two-nurse model to a Registered Nurse/Paramedic team. Anecdotally we knew this was a good move; each profession’s specialized training brings complementary strengths to the environment. However, we were also acutely aware that decisions and outcomes cannot be based on feelings and, fortunately, we had the ability to evaluate the data scientifically. In 2016, Emily Colyer, RN, BSN, NREMT-P CEN, CFRN, CTRN, CNPT, proposed a research study to evaluate the incidence of adverse events in the transport environment prior to the expansion and compare that...
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