Supporting Clinical & Patient

Care Assessment Improving

Efficiency and Patient Safety

Chris Siow LLB Hons. (U.K.), MBA (U.K.)

Business Manager
Malaysia, Brunei, Jakarta
What if this patient is you or your loved one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPBlEE3xIE0
Possible contributing factor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkaIkg8VPE4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItVcMPqaxQ0
Lets take a look at where we are right now:
Other factors that can worsen the rate of overcrowding
at hospitals:
Effects from overcrowding at hospitals
 | 11

Is building more hospitals and having more doctors,

the real remedy?
More doctors more Efficient workflow of patient care
hospitals? and transition will be better?
Common agenda to battle in hospitals across the globe
Even a major concern in Singapore
Impact of readmissions
Factors Affecting Readmissions
Why do we need to reduce or prevent
medical errors?
 Top alleged medical error named in claims where the patient expired (Physician Insurers
Association of America (PIAA) Data Sharing Project Data 19852009, Physician Insurer, Vol
55, 2010).

Mark L Graber BMJ Qual Saf 2013;22:ii21-ii27

Copyright BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and the Health Foundation. All rights reserved.

Better clinical assessment better outcomes
OBJECTIVES:
Optimum patient outcome
Reduction of mortality
Reduction of length of hospital
stay.
Effective cost management
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DESIRED OUTCOME:
Accurate diagnosis provide
effective intervention and care:
Reduction of preventable
complex cases
Reduction of preventable ER
visits and unnecessary
admissions / readmissions to
hospitals
Reduction of unnecessary
repeated laboratory and
radiology procedures
Reduction of medication error
Where does it begin?
 | 22

At the very moment and point of patient

engagement.anywhere, anytime
 | 23

What happens if proper healthcare assessment is not in

practice?
What can we do?
 | 25

Elseviers ClinicalKey can help?

Clinical decision + Patient care methodologies = Optimum Patient Outcome

(Includes patient safety)

ClinicalKeys core competency

Pull Physicians have rapid access to evidence-based content
Patient Education Tool for Patients via ClinicalKey
Patient Safety & Patient care via Patient Education
Cross reference on prescriptions
 | 33

Scenario Resident was instructed to research on the

evidence based and best practice in Patient Centred Care

He needs information from

these:

Journals

Books

Articles

Practice Guidelines

Drug Information

Patient Handout
 | 34

Questions:

Is the library equipped?

Are the journals and / or

books are the latest?

Articles are evidence

based?

Multimedia?
 | 35

Various sources for information..

Which one to rely on?
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Important question: How much time do you have?

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What if you can have Complete, Updated, Reliable,

Evidence based information at your finger tips? CURE
What else you can have with ClinicalKey
What you can have with ClinicalKey
Hospitals and Universities adopted ClinicalKey
What about you?
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