Optimizing Patient-Reported Outcome Collection and Documentation in Medical Music Therapy: Process-Improvement Study

To measure the effectiveness of nonpharmacologic interventions delivered during clinical care, investigators need to ensure robust and routine data collection without disrupting individualized patient care or adding unnecessary documentation burden. A process-improvement study was undertaken to impr...

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Published in:JMIR human factors 2023-07, Vol.10, p.e46528-e46528
Main Authors: Rodgers-Melnick, Samuel N, Block, Seneca, Rivard, Rachael L, Dusek, Jeffery A
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acupuncture
Anxiety
Clinical outcomes
Documentation
Education
Electronic health records
Health care
Hospitals
Intervention
Massage
Medical personnel
Medicine
Music therapy
Narcotics
Oncology
Original Paper
Pain
Patients
Quality improvement
Therapists
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Summary:To measure the effectiveness of nonpharmacologic interventions delivered during clinical care, investigators need to ensure robust and routine data collection without disrupting individualized patient care or adding unnecessary documentation burden. A process-improvement study was undertaken to improve documentation consistency and increase the capture of patient-reported outcomes (PROs; ie, stress, pain, anxiety, and coping) within a medical music therapy (MT) team. We used 2 Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles to improve documentation processes among an MT team (13.3 clinical full-time equivalent staff). Trainings focused on providing skills and resources for optimizing pre- and postsession PRO collection, specific guidelines for entering session data in the electronic health record, and opportunities for the team to provide feedback. Two comparisons of therapists' PRO collection rates were conducted: (1) between the 6 months before PDSA Cycle 1 (T0) and PDSA Cycle 1 (T1), and (2) between T1 and PDSA Cycle 2 (T2). Music therapists' rates of capturing any PRO within MT sessions increased significantly (P
ISSN:2292-9495
2292-9495
DOI:10.2196/46528