¶ … Inpatient Whiteboards
This study is a theoretical framework exploring whiteboard use preferences and recommendations for patient-centered care and communication through whiteboard use.
This study is a theoretical framework exploring whiteboard use, script-based communication, and hourly rounding to evaluate effectiveness of care associated with pain management and patient satisfaction.
The study utilizes a conceptual framework.
This article uses a conceptual framework that provides a literature review
Conceptual framework
Conceptual Framework
Conceptual Framework
A 3-week pilot involving multidisciplinary whiteboard use
The setting is Stanford University Medical Center
Sample characteristics (# of patients) Patients available for the pilot were 104 patients: 56 from inpatient units with use of whiteboards and 48 from inpatient units with no use of white boards.
internal medical residents were also surveyed.
Design: The study involved a semi-structured interview.
Setting: The interview took place in a pediatric urban academic hospital inpatient surgical service
Sample characteristics (# of patients) The number of people interviewed were 29 families.
Design: The researchers used a prospective, quasi-experimental pretest -- posttest design
Setting: Researchers used two units in a hospital situated in an academic health sciences center (southern U.S.)
Sample characteristics (# of patients) Medical personnel within the units were used for data collection.
Design: Review
Setting: Hospital
Sample characteristics (# of patients) No patients used, presentation type of article. Obstetric whiteboards implemented. This was a presentation that offered implementation, outcomes, and evaluation. No studies used.
Design: Data-collection Study using surveys
Setting: Pediatric emergency department
Sample characteristics (# of patients) Data collection came from two weeks of nursing call bell activation data. While no participants, 200 pre-and post opinion surveys served as the basis of the results of the study.
Design: Review of literature and replication and quasi-experimental study
Setting: No real setting
Sample characteristics (# of patients) N/R
Design: Evidence-based quality improvement project
design
Setting: Hospital
Sample characteristics (# of patients) 110 bed sample
Design: Systematic Review
Setting: Not Applicable
Sample characteristics (# of patients) Not Applicable
Design:
Setting: Medical Surgical Unit
Sample characteristics (# of patients) No real number of patients or patient bed determined
Design:
Setting: Lehigh Valley Health Network
Sample characteristics (# of patients) 125 non-nursing providers and 33 care givers
Design: No design as this is a presentation
Setting: Postpartum Stay
Sample characteristics (# of patients) 4 mother-baby units
Design: A microsystem assessment of two inpatient medical-surgical wards.
Setting: medical facility
Sample characteristics (# of patients) Not Applicable
Design: Action Research Design using qualitative information
Setting: Southern California Hospitals
Sample characteristics (# of patients) 11 hospitals
Design: Not Applicable
Setting: Not Applicable
Sample characteristics (# of patients) Not Applicable
The major variable was white board use and it was measured through patient satisfaction, communication, and estimated discharge date. The patients were the dependent variable and the white board use was the independent variable.
T-tests were performed along with one-way ANOVA.
The major variable was white board use and the patients were the dependent variable. While there was no control group,...
It was measured through patient satisfaction examined through effectiveness of pain management. No
quantitative analysis was performed.
Researchers used the Press Ganey and the Hospital Consumer Assessment of
Healthcare Providers and System (HCAHPS) surveys. No variables discussed.
The independent variable was hourly rounding with the dependent variables being call bell activations. Vendor-collected survey results consisted of the main form of data collection with one-way ANOVA interpretation.
The independent variable in this study was hourly rounding with dependent variables being
fall prevention, patient satisfaction, and call light usage.
The independent variable was pain care toolkits with dependent variables being pain management and patient satisfaction. Through
SWOT analysis and Chi-Square analysis, researcher analyzed data.
Independent variable was nursing rounds and dependent variables were patient satisfaction and reduction of
patient falls.
Independent variable was nursing rounds and dependent variables was reduction of patient falls. Study used Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems domain scores to assess effectiveness of hourly rounds.
Independent variable is white boards and dependent variables are patient satisfaction and communication. Audit implementation included: Twelve templates: Medical/Surgical,
Critical Care, Transitional Skilled Unit, Pediatrics, Labor and Delivery, Labor and Delivery Triage, NICU, Emergency Department, ED-17th Street, ED-Children's, Mom/Baby, and Perinatal.
Main variable is white board use and the dependent variables are postpartum units and patients in those units. Information was collected through surveys.
Main variable is personalized whiteboard use and dependent variable is patient satisfaction. Researcher used Press-Ganey scores for
statistical analysis.
Main variable is hourly rounds and dependent variables were participants in the phone interview. Qualitative data was analyzed for themes.
No variables as this is an expert opinion article.
Using whiteboards led to patients knowing the name of their
physician, objectives for
admission, estimated discharge date, as well as improved satisfaction overall with hospital stay. The actual
numbers were (0.0001, 0.0016, and 0.0242) respectively.
From the families interviewed, two-thirds of respondents reported the use of white board and over half were informed by staff (52%). Those that used whiteboards were six times more actively using it than those who used it as a visual reference. Other analysis pointed to 42% of that group in which parents wrote on the white board. From that 42%, 80% only had contact information.
Whiteboard use, and the other forms of communication elicited consistent and clear communication with patients' creative a positive effect in pain management and thus patient satisfaction.
No quantitative analysis was performed. Qualitative results suggest obstetric whiteboards improved communication.
Not enough quantitative analysis was performed. However, results suggest hourly rounding had no or minimal positive impact on call bell activation. Results show accidental call bell activation increased with introduction of hourly rounding.
Results suggest hourly rounding alone does not offer a decrease in call light usage, or increases patient satisfaction. It does help fall prevention, but not in a significant manner.
Pain care toolkits are beneficial to pain management and thus increased patient satisfaction. Quantitative results show P. value of
