Effects of Unit Census and Patient Acuity Levels on Discussions During Patient Rounds

Author:

Warren Carly1,Chignell Mark2,Pinkney Sonia J.1,Armstrong Bonnie A.13,Guerguerian Anne-Marie45,Laussen Peter C.46,Trbovich Patricia L.13

Affiliation:

1. Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.

2. Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.

3. Humanera, Office of Research and Innovation, North York General Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada.

4. Department of Critical Care Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada.

5. Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.

6. Department of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: PICU teams adapt the duration of patient rounding discussions to accommodate varying contextual factors, such as unit census and patient acuity. Although studies establish that shorter discussions can lead to the omission of critical patient information, little is known about how teams adapt their rounding discussions about essential patient topics (i.e., introduction/history, acute clinical status, care plans) in response to changing contexts. To fill this gap, we examined how census and patient acuity impact time spent discussing essential topics during individual patient encounters. DESIGN: Observational study. SETTING: PICU at a university-affiliated children’s hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada. SUBJECTS: Interprofessional morning rounding teams. INTERVENTIONS: None. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: We observed 165 individual patient encounters during morning rounds over 10 weeks. Regardless of census or patient acuity, the duration of patient introductions/history did not change. When census was high versus low, acute clinical status discussions significantly decreased for both low acuity patients (00 min:50 s high census; 01 min:39 s low census; –49.5% change) and high acuity patients (01 min:10 s high census; 02 min:02 s low census; –42.6% change). Durations of care plan discussions significantly reduced as a function of census (01 min:19 s high census; 02 min:52 s low census; –54.7% change) for low but not high acuity patients. CONCLUSIONS: Under high census and patient acuity levels, rounding teams disproportionately shorten time spent discussing essential patient topics. Of note, while teams preserved time to plan the care for acute patients, they cut care plan discussions of low acuity patients. This study provides needed detail regarding how rounding teams adapt their discussions of essential topics and establishes a foundation for consideration of varying contextual factors in the design of rounding guidelines. As ICUs are challenged with increasing census and patient acuity levels, it is critical that we turn our attention to these contextual aspects and understand how these adaptations impact clinical outcomes to address them.

Publisher

Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)

Subject

Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine,Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health

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