{"title":"Quality Improvement in the Digital Age: The Promise of Using Informatics to Improve Obstetric Anesthesia Care.","authors":"Holly B Ende, Brian T Bateman","doi":"10.1213/ANE.0000000000006841","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Informatics describes the study and use of processes for obtaining and utilizing data. In the clinical context, these data are then used to inform and educate providers to improve patient care. In the current digital age, informatic solutions can help clinicians to understand past or current quality issues (afferent tools), to benchmark personal performance against national averages (feedback tools), and to disseminate information to encourage best practice and quality care (efferent tools). There are countless examples of how these tools can be adapted for use in obstetric anesthesia, with evidence to support their implementation. This article thus aimed to summarize the many ways in which informatics can help clinicians to harness the power of data to improve quality and safety in obstetric anesthesia.</p>","PeriodicalId":7784,"journal":{"name":"Anesthesia and analgesia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.6000,"publicationDate":"2024-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Anesthesia and analgesia","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1213/ANE.0000000000006841","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"ANESTHESIOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Informatics describes the study and use of processes for obtaining and utilizing data. In the clinical context, these data are then used to inform and educate providers to improve patient care. In the current digital age, informatic solutions can help clinicians to understand past or current quality issues (afferent tools), to benchmark personal performance against national averages (feedback tools), and to disseminate information to encourage best practice and quality care (efferent tools). There are countless examples of how these tools can be adapted for use in obstetric anesthesia, with evidence to support their implementation. This article thus aimed to summarize the many ways in which informatics can help clinicians to harness the power of data to improve quality and safety in obstetric anesthesia.
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Anesthesia & Analgesia exists for the benefit of patients under the care of health care professionals engaged in the disciplines broadly related to anesthesiology, perioperative medicine, critical care medicine, and pain medicine. The Journal furthers the care of these patients by reporting the fundamental advances in the science of these clinical disciplines and by documenting the clinical, laboratory, and administrative advances that guide therapy. Anesthesia & Analgesia seeks a balance between definitive clinical and management investigations and outstanding basic scientific reports. The Journal welcomes original manuscripts containing rigorous design and analysis, even if unusual in their approach.
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