Obstetric anaesthesia practice: Dashboard as a dynamic audit tool
Rapid advances and improved networking abilities have led to the widespread adoption of technology in healthcare, especially focused on diagnostics, documentation and evaluation, or mining of data to improve outcomes. Current technology allows for rapid and accurate decision-making in clinical care...
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| description | Rapid advances and improved networking abilities have led to the widespread adoption of technology in healthcare, especially focused on diagnostics, documentation and evaluation, or mining of data to improve outcomes. Current technology allows for rapid and accurate decision-making in clinical care decisions for individual patients, collation and analysis at different levels for administrative and financial purposes, and the ability to visualise, analyse, and share data in real time for departmental needs. The adoption of technology may help to improve efficiency and efficacy of healthcare services. Obstetric anaesthesia is a specialised area that has to address the well-being of the pregnant woman and the unborn baby simultaneously. A shift toward caesarean sections as the major mode of childbirth has led to an increased involvement of anaesthesiologists with childbirth. Decisions are often made in high pressure, time intense situations to protect maternal and foetal health. Furthermore, labour analgesia using various neuraxial and non-neuraxial techniques is being demanded by parturients frequently, and for the materno-foetal safety, risk management is the core issue. Hence, it is essential that obstetric anaesthesia teams regularly audit their outcomes to improve services and to identify potential trouble spots earlier. It may be helpful to have audit parameters displayed as visual data, rather than complex tabular and numerical data, for ease of sharing, analysis, and redressal of problem areas. We describe the design and use of an obstetric anaesthesia dashboard that we have used in our department for the past 5 years. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3319551689da4900a3a0c22be6d1be182022-12-22T02:38:27ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsIndian Journal of Anaesthesia0019-50490976-28172018-01-01621183884310.4103/ija.IJA_346_18Obstetric anaesthesia practice: Dashboard as a dynamic audit toolSunil T PandyaKausalya ChakravarthyAparna VemareddyRapid advances and improved networking abilities have led to the widespread adoption of technology in healthcare, especially focused on diagnostics, documentation and evaluation, or mining of data to improve outcomes. Current technology allows for rapid and accurate decision-making in clinical care decisions for individual patients, collation and analysis at different levels for administrative and financial purposes, and the ability to visualise, analyse, and share data in real time for departmental needs. The adoption of technology may help to improve efficiency and efficacy of healthcare services. Obstetric anaesthesia is a specialised area that has to address the well-being of the pregnant woman and the unborn baby simultaneously. A shift toward caesarean sections as the major mode of childbirth has led to an increased involvement of anaesthesiologists with childbirth. Decisions are often made in high pressure, time intense situations to protect maternal and foetal health. Furthermore, labour analgesia using various neuraxial and non-neuraxial techniques is being demanded by parturients frequently, and for the materno-foetal safety, risk management is the core issue. Hence, it is essential that obstetric anaesthesia teams regularly audit their outcomes to improve services and to identify potential trouble spots earlier. It may be helpful to have audit parameters displayed as visual data, rather than complex tabular and numerical data, for ease of sharing, analysis, and redressal of problem areas. We describe the design and use of an obstetric anaesthesia dashboard that we have used in our department for the past 5 years.http://www.ijaweb.org/article.asp?issn=0019-5049;year=2018;volume=62;issue=11;spage=838;epage=843;aulast=PandyaAnaesthesia outcomes auditdashboardmaternal and foetal safety |
| spellingShingle | Sunil T Pandya Kausalya Chakravarthy Aparna Vemareddy Obstetric anaesthesia practice: Dashboard as a dynamic audit tool Indian Journal of Anaesthesia Anaesthesia outcomes audit dashboard maternal and foetal safety |
| title | Obstetric anaesthesia practice: Dashboard as a dynamic audit tool |
| title_full | Obstetric anaesthesia practice: Dashboard as a dynamic audit tool |
| title_fullStr | Obstetric anaesthesia practice: Dashboard as a dynamic audit tool |
| title_full_unstemmed | Obstetric anaesthesia practice: Dashboard as a dynamic audit tool |
| title_short | Obstetric anaesthesia practice: Dashboard as a dynamic audit tool |
| title_sort | obstetric anaesthesia practice dashboard as a dynamic audit tool |
| topic | Anaesthesia outcomes audit dashboard maternal and foetal safety |
| url | http://www.ijaweb.org/article.asp?issn=0019-5049;year=2018;volume=62;issue=11;spage=838;epage=843;aulast=Pandya |
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