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Dissecting multidisciplinary cardiac surgery rounds.

Marcelo Cardarelli¹, Vinay Vaidya, Dyana Conway

¹Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiac Surgery, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore 21201, Maryland, USA. mcard001@umaryland.edu

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|August 25, 2009

Summary

Multidisciplinary rounds in pediatric intensive care are cost-effective, improving communication and reducing errors. This study quanties the time and salary costs associated with these valuable team-based patient care discussions.

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Published on: February 11, 2022

Area of Science:

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Healthcare Management
Health Economics

Background:

Multidisciplinary rounds in critical care enhance communication, reduce medical errors, shorten hospital stays, and yield economic savings.
Assessing the cost and time utilization of multidisciplinary rounds is crucial for understanding their economic impact.

Purpose of the Study:

To evaluate the cost of multidisciplinary rounds in a pediatric intensive care unit.
To analyze the time allocation of healthcare professionals during these rounds.

Main Methods:

Video-recorded weekly multidisciplinary teaching rounds of cardiac patients in a pediatric intensive care unit (n=22) were analyzed.
Rounding time was categorized into presentation and discussion, measured in minutes.
Cost was calculated by multiplying healthcare professionals' hourly salaries by rounding time.

Main Results:

Median rounding time per patient was 15 minutes, with 26% dedicated to presentation and the remainder to discussion.
A median of 13.5 healthcare professionals participated in each round.
The mean salary cost per patient rounded was $140.87.

Conclusions:

Multidisciplinary rounds represent a low-cost intervention with established benefits in critical care.
Optimizing data retrieval and presentation time can enhance the discussion and teaching components of rounds.
Current billing practices for multidisciplinary rounding teams do not accurately reflect the time invested by professionals.