Five Hazardous Attitudes in the Operating Room: The Role of Aviation Culture and Learning to Fly Safe

Abstract

Before the app was created, surgical patients of Jackson Memorial Hospital (JMH) needed preoperative worksheets filled out and scanned to an operating room scheduler. JMH Clinic Buddy digitizes and centralizes this process while providing a digital database for CPT and ICD codes at the user's fingertips, removing the need to search codes manually (Fig. 2). This reduces the overall time it takes to fill out each form by 1 to 2 minutes and increases workflow efficiency of the outpatient clinic. The app also provides users immediate and centralized access to educational and clinical materials such as a plastic surgery photographic standard, Botox administration guide, and breast implant size guides. The app has the ability to function as a research tool because it automatically generates a deidentified database of patients that can be used for future quality improvement projects.Whereas some EMR systems have similar features related to digitizing surgical booking, our app is EMR agnostic. The effects of using JMH Clinic Buddy have not yet been quantified but the tool is being used routinely by physicians and staff at JMH and University of Miami affiliated hospitals. We hope the app will increase patient satisfaction by improving patient interactions and decreasing wait times and booking errors. Future goals are to quantify the effects of using the app to better understand how technology can be used to better the field of plastic surgery both in and out of the operating room.