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NET Rounding: a novel approach to efficient and effective rounds for the modern clinical learning environment
Shirley J Chan1, Hannah L Archibald1, Stephanie M Conner2
1Department of Medicine, University of California-San Francisco, 521 Parnassus Avenue, Box 0131, San Francisco, California, 94143, USA.
Background:
Rounds are a foundational practice in patient care and education in the inpatient healthcare environment, but increased demands on inpatient teams have led to dissatisfaction with inefficient, ineffective rounds. In this study, we describe the design, implementation, and evaluation of a novel rounding framework ("NET Rounding") that provides behaviorally-based strategies to inpatient teams to achieve efficient rounds while preserving patient safety and education.
Methods:
NET Rounding consists of nine recommendations divided into three categories: Novel rounding strategies, shared Expectations, and Time management. This framework was introduced as a bundled intervention at a single-site, quaternary-care, academic hospital from March-May 2021. Eighty-three residents and 64 attendings rotated on the inpatient teaching service during the intervention period. Participants were surveyed before, during, and after their rotation about rounding's contribution to educational value, patient safety, resident duty hour violations and rotation experience. Additionally, rounding duration was recorded daily by team attendings.
Results:
Thirty-two residents (38.5%) and 45 attendings (70%) completed post-intervention surveys. Rounding duration was recorded on 529/626 rounding days (80.6%) and resulted in achieving efficient rounds on 412/529 days (77.9%). Residents reported improvement in perceived patient safety (54 to 84%, p = 0.0131) and educational value of rounds (38 to 69%, p = 0.0213) due to NET Rounding; no change was observed amongst attendings in these areas (79 to 84% and 70 to 80%, p = 0.7083 and 0.4237, respectively). Overall, 29/32 residents (91%) and 33/45 attendings (73%) reported a positive impact on rotation experience.
Conclusions:
NET Rounding enabled inpatient teaching teams to complete rounds more efficiently while preserving patient safety and education.
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