Capturing and Improving Case Charge Accuracy in Robotic Surgery Programs

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SUMMARY: The robotic platform offers many benefits to patients and surgeons; however, incorporating this new surgical tool has also introduced challenges in intraoperative documentation accuracy. In 2019, we began to investigate our institution's robotic intraoperative supply documentation accuracy. We identified a 60% case error rate between the robotic items logged by the operating room staff in the electronic medical record and the true robotic items used for a case as logged on the Intuitive platform. This can be a widespread and unrecognized problem for other organizations as well. We then addressed this problem through patient safety and quality improvement-based interventions including error notification to operating room personnel, a barcode scanning system, peer-to-peer education, improving robotic item descriptions, and procedure receipt messaging. These interventions helped us decrease our institution's case error rate from 60% to 16.9% during the past 2 years, which generated a cumulative 2.1% net increase in our billed robotic items, through the addition and/or subtraction of robotic items from each case. Through our multiple interventions, we have created a robust, flexible, and efficient item-capturing system for robotic surgery cases.

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E-Artikel

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2022

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2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:234

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Journal of the American College of Surgeons - 234(2022), 5 vom: 01. Mai, Seite 964-968

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Englisch

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Gerull, William D [VerfasserIn]
Pierce, Andrew [VerfasserIn]
Mody, Jessica [VerfasserIn]
Awad, Michael M [VerfasserIn]
Martin, Jackie [VerfasserIn]
Wellen, Jason R [VerfasserIn]

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Date Completed 18.04.2022

Date Revised 23.08.2022

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1097/XCS.0000000000000128

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM339558830