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A new tool can help where hospitalists need it most: at the bedside.
The focus on providing high-value care (HVC) continues to grow and expand in health care today. Still, most education around HVC currently happens in a formalized setting – lectures, modules, and so on, says Carolyn D. Sy, MD, interim director of the Hospital Medicine Service at the University of Washington, Seattle, and coauthor of a recent abstract about a new tool to address this shortcoming. “There are no instruments for measuring HVC discussions or practices at the bedside, confounding efforts to assess behavior changes associated with curricular interventions,” she said.
So she and other doctors undertook a study to identify 10 HVC topics in three domains (quality, cost, patient values), then measured their reliability with the goal of designing an HVC Rounding Tool and showing that it is an effective tool to measure observable markers of HVC at the bedside. “This is critical as it addresses an important educational gap in translating HVC from theoretical knowledge to bedside practice,” Dr. Sy said.
The tool is designed to capture multidisciplinary participation, she says, including involvement from not only faculty, fellows, or trainees, but also nursing, pharmacists, families, and other members of the health care team. The tool can be used as a peer feedback instrument to help physicians integrate HVC topics during bedside rounds or as a metric to assess the educational efficacy of future curriculum.
“The HVC Rounding Tool provides an opportunity for faculty development through peer observation and feedback on the integration and role modeling of HVC at the bedside,” Dr. Sy said. “It also is an instrument to help assess the educational efficacy of formal HVC curriculum and translation into bedside practice. Lastly, it is a tool that could be used to measure the relationship between HVC behaviors and actual patient outcomes such as length of stay, readmissions, cost of hospitalization – a feature with increasing importance given our move toward value-based health care.”
Reference
Sy CD, McDaniel C, Bradford M, et al. The Development and Validation of a High Value Care Rounding Tool Using the Delphi Method [abstract]. J Hosp Med. 2017; 12 (suppl 2). http://www.shmabstracts.com/abstract/the-development-and-validation-of-a-high-value-care-rounding-tool-using-the-delphi-method/. Accessed June 6, 2017.
A new tool can help where hospitalists need it most: at the bedside.
The focus on providing high-value care (HVC) continues to grow and expand in health care today. Still, most education around HVC currently happens in a formalized setting – lectures, modules, and so on, says Carolyn D. Sy, MD, interim director of the Hospital Medicine Service at the University of Washington, Seattle, and coauthor of a recent abstract about a new tool to address this shortcoming. “There are no instruments for measuring HVC discussions or practices at the bedside, confounding efforts to assess behavior changes associated with curricular interventions,” she said.
So she and other doctors undertook a study to identify 10 HVC topics in three domains (quality, cost, patient values), then measured their reliability with the goal of designing an HVC Rounding Tool and showing that it is an effective tool to measure observable markers of HVC at the bedside. “This is critical as it addresses an important educational gap in translating HVC from theoretical knowledge to bedside practice,” Dr. Sy said.
The tool is designed to capture multidisciplinary participation, she says, including involvement from not only faculty, fellows, or trainees, but also nursing, pharmacists, families, and other members of the health care team. The tool can be used as a peer feedback instrument to help physicians integrate HVC topics during bedside rounds or as a metric to assess the educational efficacy of future curriculum.
“The HVC Rounding Tool provides an opportunity for faculty development through peer observation and feedback on the integration and role modeling of HVC at the bedside,” Dr. Sy said. “It also is an instrument to help assess the educational efficacy of formal HVC curriculum and translation into bedside practice. Lastly, it is a tool that could be used to measure the relationship between HVC behaviors and actual patient outcomes such as length of stay, readmissions, cost of hospitalization – a feature with increasing importance given our move toward value-based health care.”
Reference
Sy CD, McDaniel C, Bradford M, et al. The Development and Validation of a High Value Care Rounding Tool Using the Delphi Method [abstract]. J Hosp Med. 2017; 12 (suppl 2). http://www.shmabstracts.com/abstract/the-development-and-validation-of-a-high-value-care-rounding-tool-using-the-delphi-method/. Accessed June 6, 2017.
A new tool can help where hospitalists need it most: at the bedside.
The focus on providing high-value care (HVC) continues to grow and expand in health care today. Still, most education around HVC currently happens in a formalized setting – lectures, modules, and so on, says Carolyn D. Sy, MD, interim director of the Hospital Medicine Service at the University of Washington, Seattle, and coauthor of a recent abstract about a new tool to address this shortcoming. “There are no instruments for measuring HVC discussions or practices at the bedside, confounding efforts to assess behavior changes associated with curricular interventions,” she said.
So she and other doctors undertook a study to identify 10 HVC topics in three domains (quality, cost, patient values), then measured their reliability with the goal of designing an HVC Rounding Tool and showing that it is an effective tool to measure observable markers of HVC at the bedside. “This is critical as it addresses an important educational gap in translating HVC from theoretical knowledge to bedside practice,” Dr. Sy said.
The tool is designed to capture multidisciplinary participation, she says, including involvement from not only faculty, fellows, or trainees, but also nursing, pharmacists, families, and other members of the health care team. The tool can be used as a peer feedback instrument to help physicians integrate HVC topics during bedside rounds or as a metric to assess the educational efficacy of future curriculum.
“The HVC Rounding Tool provides an opportunity for faculty development through peer observation and feedback on the integration and role modeling of HVC at the bedside,” Dr. Sy said. “It also is an instrument to help assess the educational efficacy of formal HVC curriculum and translation into bedside practice. Lastly, it is a tool that could be used to measure the relationship between HVC behaviors and actual patient outcomes such as length of stay, readmissions, cost of hospitalization – a feature with increasing importance given our move toward value-based health care.”
Reference
Sy CD, McDaniel C, Bradford M, et al. The Development and Validation of a High Value Care Rounding Tool Using the Delphi Method [abstract]. J Hosp Med. 2017; 12 (suppl 2). http://www.shmabstracts.com/abstract/the-development-and-validation-of-a-high-value-care-rounding-tool-using-the-delphi-method/. Accessed June 6, 2017.