Paper Info
Title
Ambulatory Clinician'S Guide To Inpatient Service: An Innovative Rapid Onboarding Strategy For The Covid-19 Pandemic
Abstract
Background and Significance When hospitals are subject to prolonged surges in patients, such as during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, additional clinicians may be needed to care for the rapid increase of acutely ill patients. How might we quickly prepare a large number of ambulatory-based clinicians to care for hospitalized patients using the inpatient workflow of the electronic health record (EHR)?Objectives The aim of the study is to create a successful training intervention which prepares ambulatory-based clinicians as they transition to inpatient services.Methods We created a training guide with embedded videos that describes the workflow of an inpatient clinician. We delivered this intervention via an e-mail hyperlink, a static hyperlink inside of the EHR, and an on-demand hyperlink within the EHR.Results In anticipation of the first peak of inpatients with COVID-19 in April 2020, the training manual was accessed 261 times by 167 unique users as clinicians anticipated being called into service. As our institution has not yet needed to deploy ambulatory-based clinicians for inpatient service, usage data of the training document is still pending.Conclusion We intend that our novel implementation of a multimedia, highly accessible onboarding document with access from points inside and outside of the EHR will improve clinician performance and serve as a helpful example to other organizations during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1055/s-0040-1719042
APPLIED CLINICAL INFORMATICS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
COVID-19, hospitalist, training, electronic health record
Journal
11
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
05
1869-0327
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Richard L Altman100.34
Tyler Anstett200.34
Jennifer R Simpson300.68
Amira Del Pino-Jones400.34
Chen-Tan Lin521.76
Jonathan Pell600.34