• AMIA Annu Symp Proc · Jan 2013

    Use of simulated physician handoffs to study cross-cover chart biopsy in the electronic medical record.

    • Logan Kendall, Predrag Klasnja, Justin Iwasaki, Jennifer A Best, Andrew A White, Sahar Khalaj, Chris Amdahl, and Katherine Blondon.
    • University of Washington, Seattle, WA;
    • AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2013 Jan 1; 2013: 766-75.

    AbstractClinical handoffs involve the rapid transfer of patient information from one provider or team to another, through activities which may introduce errors and affect care delivery. "Cross-coverage" requires quickly familiarizing oneself with unfamiliar patients whose management plans were established by another provider or team. Through this work, we describe physicians' information seeking approaches within an electronic medical record (EMR) during physician handoff and chart biopsy at a major academic medical center. We conducted simulated handoff sessions and interviews with 21 physicians using standardized patient cases and we analyzed screen capture data, and video and audio recordings of interactions with the EMR and handoff printouts. We found highly variable navigation of the EMR but greater similarity in physicians' EMR navigation behavior when the chart review was prompted by simulated interruptions. Understanding how physicians seek and assimilate patient data can inform handoff tool design and suggest strategies for explicitly supporting EMR chart biopsies.

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