Enhancing practice efficiency

Abstract

Professional burnout is prevalent among physicians, affecting at least 35% of US allergists-immunologists, and is associated with negative outcomes affecting physicians, patients, and health care organizations.Organizational strategies that support physician well-being by creating a more efficient practice environment hold great promise, particularly for allergists-immunologists, specifically by reducing administrative burden and fostering models of team-based care.Using scribes to document patient visits is a particularly effective strategy to enhance practice efficiency and physician well-being while boosting productivity.Both private and academic allergy-immunology institutions should prioritize the adoption and iterative evaluation and refinement of these strategies to cocreate an efficient and ideal practice environment.

Improving Blood Product Transfusion Premedication Plan Documentation: A Single-institution Quality Improvement Effort

“…Standardization and availability of information can lead to process efficiency, 17,18 and process efficiency is a component of patient and clinician satisfaction. [19][20][21] Previous data showed that clinical pathway implementation, computerized provider order entry (CPOE), standardized documentation, education, and patient engagement could reduce variation and improve communication between healthcare teams. 9,16,[22][23][24][25] Thus, using a quality improvement (QI) approach, our team sought to improve ordering efficiency by increasing the rate of blood product premedication plan documentation.…”