Misdiagnosis and Cognitive Overload in the Clinical Workplace causing Morbidity and Mortality. Look at the notes pages in this PowerPoint. 10 Quality Indicators for Clinical Consultations
What episode of avoidable harm to a patient had the greatest impact on you as hands on, observer or Investigator? What did you learn?
I was in a team when new Doctor mixed antibiotic with potassium not sodium chloride & injected into central line, patient died.
Systems matter.
I am running a seminar on #PatientSafety & Leadership & want real examples of Avoidable Harm & effective changes.
In my example it's now unusual for concentrated potassium chloride to be available on general wards, but that took far too long.
@NHSwhistleblowr @BrennanSurgeon
@NHSwhistleblowr @BrennanSurgeon At Worthing Hospital 2 patients of mine had anaphylaxis to iv coamoxiclav despite known reactions marked on charts & wristband. It took 3y for me to discover many nurses had stopped checking wristband before iv injections.
It’s interesting I’m being told how long is ideal in #NHS for Clinical Consultations in Outpatients by ‘management’, who can hold as many meetings of undefined purpose and length as they wish at short notice & expect my participation @djnicholl@PeteGordon68@vincentconnolly
The most important Meetings in #Healthcare are between Patient and Clinician but are not the ones valued and prioritised by management
Imagine if management’s meetings were subject to same rules as outpatients?
Schedule 6 weeks in advance
New Agenda items 30 mins max, Reviews 15 mins. Extra items can be added by anyone but all items must still be discussed. Items for other meetings can be added in Willy Nilly
I don’t think of myself as a great doctor but I know there is no success in medicine without preparation and organisation therefore I have just spent 2hours organising our inpatients medical case note folders after today’s #WardRounds@DrGrumble@CLOSLER@j59dd
I don’t know what had happened in the 3 weeks since my last Physician of the Week but someone must have decided that entropy into chaos was the best way to organise inpatient clinical notes and won everyone over. Entropy is easy, organisation is unremitting hard work
I weep watching our Junior Doctors wrangling with dreadful disconnected paper & computer IT which gobbles up their working time & undermines their Clinical Reasoning thus putting Diagnosis & Patient Management at risk
At a ‘Winter Pressures’ meeting on Friday I said we could make our already good 4hr performance an hour better if we had Usable IT and cut out the quintuplication of information into multiple different bad paper & computer IT systems @acutemedicine@PeteGordon68@nhshBoyd
I type Discharge Summaries using the horrible #NHSHighland#IDL software but it has to be something really really important to persuade me to use Hospital version of #SCIGateway for inter hospital referrals - retyping name address GP into badly designed IT. Intensely frustrating