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Professional monitoring and critical incident reporting using personal digital assistants
Paul D Bent1, Stephen N Bolsin, Bernie J Creati
1Department of Anaesthesia, Pain Management and Peri-operative Medicine, Barwon Health, The Geelong Hospital, Ryrie Street, Geelong, VIC 3218, Australia. paulbent@bigpond.net.au
Objective:
To assess the practicality of using personal digital assistants (PDAs) for the collection of logbook data, procedural performance data and critical incident reports in anaesthetic trainees.
Design:
Pilot study.
Setting:
Two tertiary referral centres (in Victoria and New Zealand) and a large district hospital in Queensland.
Participants:
Six accredited Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA) registrars and their ANZCA training supervisors.
Interventions:
Registrars and supervisors underwent initial training for one hour, and supervisors were provided with ongoing support.
Main Outcome Measures:
Reliable use of the program, average time for data entry and number of procedures logged.
Results:
ANZCA trainees reliably enter data into PDAs. The data can be transferred to a central database, where they can be remotely analysed before results are fed back to trainees.
Conclusions:
This technology can be used to monitor professional performance in ANZCA trainees.
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