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Professional monitoring and critical incident reporting using personal digital assistants.
Full Abstract
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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Author information
Author/s: Bent, Paul D (PD); Bolsin, Stephen N (SN); Creati, Bernie J (BJ); Patrick, Andrew J (AJ); Colson, Mark E (ME);
Affiliation: Department of Anaesthesia, Pain Management and Peri-operative Medicine, Barwon Health, The Geelong Hospital, Ryrie Street, Geelong, VIC 3218, Australia. paulbent@bigpond.net.au
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article
Journal: The Medical journal of Australia (Med J Aust), published in Australia. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2002-Nov; vol 177 (issue 9) : pp 496-9
Dates: Created 2002/10/30; Completed 2002/12/19; Revised 2004/11/17;
PMID: 12405892, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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Comments and Corrections
CommentIn: Med J Aust. 2003 Apr 7;178(7):359; author reply 359. (PMID: 12670289)
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