Web – Based Signout Lists

Working today on introducing the pediatric residents at Albany Medical Center to the concept of web-based signouts .. and taking another look at our code from the software that was written in 1997.

Back then, Patrick Norton (a dorky medical student at the time) and I built this system to help facilitate signout.  We presented a paper at AMIA. 

The concept is that the pediatric residents will use this list for daily sign-out.  The family physicaians have been using it for about 5 years .. and the Internal Medicine Residents have been using it for about 6 months.  Everyone seems to like it very much, but I've learned that what works for one group of docs doesn't always work for another.  Hence the meeting today … I'll document as we go ..

Changes that the peds folks want/need:

1. Weight (in kg) … If over 50 remind to use adult dose.
2. Primary physician name
3. Hosptial Attending name
4. Off-Service Field with drop-down menu for selecting:
   1. Pediatric Surgery
   2. ENT
   3. Ortho
   4. Neurosurgery
   5. Adult Neurology
   6. Urology
   7. Other
5. Which Service list
   1. Red
   2. Green
   3. PICU
6. NICU is separate
   1. 1
   2. 2
   3. 3
   4. 4
   5. 5
   6. 6
   7. 7
7. Output:
   1. If age < 2 then express in months
   2. if age , 30 days then express in days
   3. Put weight next to patient name

We'll implement this stuff for now … and then likely re-visit in the summer, after the new interns have settled in.