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Kaitlin Scarpaci1, Christina Chen1, Mary Micker1
1Division of Urology, Children's National Hospital, Washington, D.C, USA.
Abstract:
Missed care opportunities (MCOs) can negatively affect patients, providers and institutions. In 2022, we established a prospective quality improvement (QI) database to track MCOs for urodynamics (UDS). Between 2022 and 2024, 877 appointments were scheduled. The MCO rate was 29 %. Patients with spina bifida (SB) undergoing non-video UDS accounted for 79 % of MCOs. This sub-group was sensitive to reminder type, with MCOs driven down by human phone reminders then rising above the median MCO rate with text reminders (aOR 1.5 [95 % CI 1.09-2.14], p = 0.02). This knowledge, alongside practitioner-assigned reasons for MCOs, has informed targeted QI interventions.
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