An educational measure to significantly increase critical knowledge regarding interfacility patient transfers

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine
Torben K BeckerCemal B Sozener

Abstract

Patient transfers among medical facilities are high-risk situations. Despite this, there is very little training of physicians regarding the medical and legal aspects of transport medicine. To examine the effects of a one hour, educational intervention on Emergency Medicine (EM) residents' and Critical Care (CC) fellows' knowledge regarding the medical and legal aspects of interfacility patient transfers. Prior to the intervention, physician knowledge regarding 12 key concepts in patient transfer was assessed using a pre-test instrument. A one hour, interactive, educational session followed immediately thereafter. Following the intervention, a post-intervention test was given between two and four weeks after delivery. Participants were also asked to describe any prior transportation-medicine-related education, their opinions as they relate to the relevance of the topic, and their comfort levels with patient transfers before and after the intervention. Only a minority of participants had received any formal training in patient transfers prior to the intervention, despite dealing with patient transfers on a frequent, often daily, basis. Both groups improved in several categories on the post-intervention test. They reported improv...Continue Reading

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Mar 20, 2015·Prehospital and Disaster Medicine·Torben K BeckerCemal B Sozener
Aug 30, 2018·Academic Medicine : Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges·Jennita G MeinemaNynke van Dijk

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