Publications by authors named "Clifford W Pollard"
Article Synopsis
- The discharge summary (DS) provides an overview of a patient's hospital stay and future care plans, but is often found to be incomplete or unclear.
- An electronic prompting system was introduced to improve the quality of the DS in hospitals by helping doctors accurately document important patient information.
- A study showed that the quality of DSs significantly improved after implementing this system, with better documentation of diagnoses and other clinical details, demonstrating the effectiveness of electronic prompts.
Article Synopsis
- The discharge summary (DS) is an important document summarizing a patient's hospital stay, but its completion is time-consuming for junior medical staff, leading to excessive overtime and costs for hospitals.
- A new program was implemented to automate the transfer of required information from existing electronic systems into the DS, significantly reducing the time needed to complete them.
- As a result, not only did the time spent on DS compilation and overtime decrease, but the completion rate of DSs within 48 hours also improved, potentially saving hospitals over $350,000 annually.
Purpose: A relatively simple radiologically guided method for the treatment of enterocutaneous fistula by gelfoam embolization is described.
Methods: Three cases of chronic enterocutaneous fistula are presented. In each case, a sheath was positioned with its tip at the enteric opening of the fistula.