Optimizing the patient handoff and progress note documentation efficiency in the EPIC EMR system within a neurosurgery residency: A quality improvement initiative.

Background: Handoffs and documentation are a potentially modifiable source of medical error. However, little attention has been given toenhancementof these within the neurosurgical field. We aim to increase efficiency and accuracy of neurosurgical handoffs, including the neurological exam, thus decreasing medical documentation time within current duty-hour restrictions.

Chronic subdural cortical stimulation for phantom limb pain: report of a series of two cases.

Phantom limb pain is a complex, incompletely understood pain syndrome that is characterized by chronic painful paresthesias in a previous amputated body part. Limited treatment modalities exist that provide meaningful relief, including pharmacological treatments and spinal cord stimulation that are rarely successful for refractory cases. Here, we describe our two-patient cohort with recalcitrant upper extremity phantom limb pain treated with chronic subdural cortical stimulation.