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Many EMR's have standard scales built in, so wondering if CPSI could build eforms, flowchart or notes that have all the standard scales and the group could put in votes for priority ones but i think many of them are national and we are all re-doing the same scales so would be nice to have some standards to choose from and each facility would of course still have option to build their own.
I think it would be enormously beneficial if many of these repetitive assessment scores displayed in or like the VS application as they are used throughout the patient stay for medical decision making by nurses, anesthesia, provders, and pharmacists. This would be things like RASS, CIWA-Ar, Morse, Pasero, Aldrette, Johns Hopkins Fall Risk Assessment Tool, a standardized VTE Risk assessment, NIH Stroke Scale, Glasgow Coma Scale, SOFA, qSOFA, COWS, and more. This would allow ability to view trends quickly as well as add documentation readily (some assessments can be as often as every 15 minutes). Some are built into Documentation, but to use them anywhere else, they have to be tediously recreated. Additionally, Flow Charts and Eforms are character limited causing us to make changes in wording that really should not/cannot occur due to copywrite and/or evidence-based guidelines.
Agree, I would like an intuitive scale. Something that would generate an order based off of what the scale evaluated.
I'd like to get more information about what you want to see, where you'd want to see it, and when you'd need it based on your workflow/patient visit. We have a number of validated risk assessments and screening tools, such as Braden and Morse Fall, in our AHT and Thrive content.
Within Thrive, we have them in the content included in Documentation, the best practice POC flowcharts which are posted in CPSIQ, and in some of the CPSI Templates available for Notes. We're still working on our best practice eforms for the Eforms Sharing Library. We can certainly prioritize some of these so they are available sooner.
If you're using any of these, will you share some of the pain points you're currently experiencing or give some insight on what you hope to see? Are you looking for additional functionality with the documentation we already offer? Do you need a way to have the information quickly shared with different users or settings? Do you need a better way to compare the results for a single patient or across multiple patients?
I look forward to hearing from you.