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Travel and Communicable Disease Screening DUHS Infection Control Team Design/Pilot

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Travel and Communicable Disease Screening

DUHS Infection Control TeamDesign/Pilot

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SBAR

• Situation – DUHS is not actively completing travel and exposure screening

• Background – Initiated travel screening for Ebola per CDC recommendation but discontinued due to limitations in electronic medical record (Maestro Care)

• Assessment – with recent Maestro Care Upgrade we have the usability and functionality that is needed

• Recommendation – Implement travel and exposure screening tool initially in the ED and eventual planned roll out across DUHS

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Syndromic Surveillance Survey Results

Bonnie Taylor, MPH, BSN, RNIbukun Akinboyo, MD

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What type of practice environment do you work in?

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Do you have a method for screening patients who may have an infectious disease?

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60%

Of those who responded “Yes”,106 specifically identified who is 

conducting the screening:

PRMO 65%

Intake/Triage 23%

Scheduling 8%

Self‐Identification Prompted by Signage

4% 40%

40% said “Yes”

Of those who articulated their method of screening, 82 identified these systems in place:

Triage by Clinical Staff 29%

PRMO/Mask – Waiting Room 28%

PRMO/Asks Questions or Sees Symptoms

23%

PRMO/Travel Screen, Sees “Flag” in System

12%

TB Screening Tool by Clinical Staff 6%

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Who could be responsible for asking patients screening questions?

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What is the best method to communicate with clinical staff about a potentially infectious patient checking in?

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77% identified that verbal communication (either face‐to‐face or via telephone) is the most reliable method to notify clinical staff.  

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Are there any barriers to rapidly identifying and isolating patients who may have a highly transmissible infection?

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41% said “Yes”

Of 306 responses reviewed, barriersidentified include:

Personnel knowledge or skill 32%

Space 26%

Patient knowledge or privacy 16%

Resources, equipment or tools 13%

Time 9%

Other (Don’t know, unsure etc.) 3%

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Can these barriers be overcome?

Tell us why you think these barriers can or cannot be overcome.

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74% said “Yes”

Of 191 responses reviewed, barriers identified include:

Personnel knowledge or skill 46%Space 30%Staffing 6%Communication 18%

Comments:• Better training and awareness• Need written protocols• No space to isolate• Need immediate access to interpreters• Add signage to educate patients

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Summary

• Intake staff appear to have clear and primary limited roles in identifying potentially infectious patient

• Training, staffing and space are the most common perceived barriers

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ED Arrival Screen

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Screening

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Create BPA’s to notify clinicians

• Epic automatically updates our system with new CDC travel warnings, we will need to create the BestPractice Advisory ﴾BPA﴿ that shows those warnings to clinicians

• The BPA appears when information collected in the travel screening activity causes a patient to be flagged as potentially being infected by a contagious disease they contracted while traveling

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Giving Users Access to travel screening in

Pilot:• ED Arrival workflows (PRMO and ED Staff)Pilot will last for 3 months – Design group will be pulled back together 6 weeks into pilot to see how things are going and review data.

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How often must a travel screen be completed?

To avoid screening patients too frequently, the Travel Screening activity considers a patient's screening as complete if the patient was screened recently as part of a different encounter.• Midnight yesterday or 24 hours before the patient's admission, whichever is earliest.

Timeframe consideration: 1 weeks2 weeks3weeks

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Screen Patients During e‐check In

• Patient‐entered questionnaires in MyChartand Welcome give you the opportunity to begin screening patients before they even arrive at the clinic.

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Future State Considerations

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Discussion/Comments