• Acad Med · Aug 2012

    Randomized Controlled Trial

    Faculty member review and feedback using a sign-out checklist: improving intern written sign-out.

    • Gregory M Bump, James E Bost, Raquel Buranosky, and Michael Elnicki.
    • Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-2582, USA. bumpgm@upmc.edu
    • Acad Med. 2012 Aug 1; 87 (8): 1125-31.

    PurposeAlthough residents commonly perform patient care sign-out during training, faculty do not frequently supervise or evaluate sign-out. The authors designed a sign-out checklist, and they investigated whether use of the checklist, paired with faculty member review and feedback, would improve interns' written sign-out.MethodIn a randomized, controlled design in 2011, the authors compared the sign-out content and the overall sign-out summary scores of interns who received twice-monthly faculty member sign-out evaluation with those of interns who received the standard sign-out instruction. A sign-out checklist, which the authors developed on the basis of internal needs assessment and published sign-out recommendations, guided the evaluation of written sign-out content and sign-out organization as well as the twice-monthly, face-to-face evaluation that the interns in the intervention group received.ResultsUsing the sign-out checklist and receiving feedback from a faculty member led to statistically significant improvements in interns' sign-out. Through regression analysis, the authors calculated a 23% difference in the sign-out content (P = .005) and a 2.2-point difference in the overall summary score (on a 9-point scale, P = .009) between the interns who received sign-out feedback and those who did not. The content and quality of the intervention group's sign-outs improved, whereas the content and quality of the control group's worsened.ConclusionsA sign-out checklist paired with twice-monthly, face-to-face feedback from a faculty member led to improvements in the content and quality of interns' written sign-out.

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