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A Pilot QMR Consultation Service in an ICU

Year: 1989

Type: article

Abstract: Our work explored the educational utility of a pilot QMR® (Quick Medical Reference) consultation service in the Medical and Respiratory Intensive Care Units (MICU and RICU) at North Carolina Memorial Hospital. A consultation team made up of a senior medical resident and an internal medicine attending used QMR as a principal resource to develop consultation notes that addressed specific information needs of the patient care team in the units. Nine physicians (N=9) reviewed and rated eleven QMR consultations on their educational content as well as the consultations' effect on their clinical thinking. The participants rated the mean overall educational value of the diagnostic information in the consultations as 3.95 (sd 1.27) on a six-point scale. Two specific educational issues dealing with thinking about a patient in a “new way” and expanding a differential were consistently seen as positive effects of the consultations.

Source: PubMed Central

Authors: Ruth de Bliek, Robert C. McClure, Robert Mcnutt, M. Andrew Greganti, Charles P. Friedman

Language: English

Topic: Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills

Subfield: Family Practice

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDGs: Good health and well-being, Quality education

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1889075913

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