Improving oral chemotherapy documentation in a breast medical oncology outpatient practice.

Authors

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Aarti Sonia Bhardwaj

Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY

Aarti Sonia Bhardwaj, Katherine FitzPatrick, Kathleen Hynes, David Bivens, Micheal McLean, Jenna Enson, Marilyn J. Hammer, Randall F. Holcombe

Organizations

Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY, Mount Sinai Hospital, NY, NY, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, New York University, New York, NY, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, HI

Research Funding

Other

Background: The safe administration of oral chemotherapy is a challenging yet important process to ensure patient safety. Comprehensive initial and subsequent documentation especially regarding dosage and toxicities in the plan of care for patients receiving oral chemotherapy can be instrumental in improving patient safety by ensuring comprehensive health information is available to all health team members. Methods: We are undertaking a rapid cycle improvement project to improve initial and subsequent documentation of new oral chemotherapy care plans by increasing our compliance with the number of components of an oral chemotherapy care plan (as outlined by QOPI’s 13 standards). We performed a baseline chart audit to confirm our current low level of compliance. We then created a process to use smart phrases that include necessary QOPI elements for progress notes upon new prescription of oral chemotherapy as well as smart phrases for subsequent patient initiated telephone encounters regarding oral chemotherapy, that feed into a universal “med note” location. Post implementation, we will perform a chart audit to determine our updated compliance. Staff satisfaction with the old vs the new process will be compared to verify that we have created a more efficient system to answer patient questions regarding oral chemotherapy. Results: Baseline chart audit revealed the number of components of an oral chemotherapy care plan (as per QOPI standards) documented in the EMR was 43% (i.e contained 5/13 components). A Pareto chart confirmed that underutilization of current EMR resources and lack of knowledge regarding QOPI standards were common reasons for poor oral chemotherapy documentation. Implementation of smart phrases for documentation for initial patient encounters and subsequent telephone encounters is currently in process to determine our new level of compliance with QOPI standards for a sustained and meaningful improvement. Conclusions: This quality improvement initiative was designed to improve patient safety by enhancing documentation of an oral chemotherapy care plan in the EMR and also to create a more efficient system to answer and document patient phone calls regarding oral chemotherapy.

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2017 ASCO Quality Care Symposium

Session Type

Poster Session

Session Title

Poster Session A: Cost, Value, and Policy in Quality; Practice of Quality

Track

Cost, Value, and Policy in Quality,Practice of Quality

Sub Track

Learning from Projects Done in a Practice

Citation

J Clin Oncol 35, 2017 (suppl 8S; abstract 71)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2017.35.8_suppl.71

Abstract #

71

Poster Bd #

C12

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