Documentation of Patient Care Flashcards
Why do we document patient care activities?
allows longitudinal care
communication between patient and other HCPs
legal record of recommendations/actions & rationale
substantiating/determining billed services/level of care
quality, outcomes tracking
If you didn’t document it…
it didn’t happen
Where do we document patient care activities?
patient medical record
EMR
MTM platforms
Type & Faxed to provider in another organization
Annotated on Rx
Structured Communication HCPs see
benefits
quickly find information
format helps writer avoid omissions
templates, efficiency, compliance, reporting for Quality improvement/research
Unstructured Communication HCPs see
narrative notes
What is TITRS and what does it stand for?
structure documentation type
Title
Introduction
Text
Recommendation
Signature
What is FARM and what does it stand for?
structured documentation type
Findings
Assessment
Recommendations/Resolutions
Monitoring
What is SOAPE and what does it stand for?
type of structured documentation
Subjective
Objective
Assessment
Plan
Education
What is SBARO and what does it stand for?
type of structured documentation
Situation
Background
Assessment
Recommendation
Outcomes
What are soap notes and what is the goal of them?
concise report of the pertinent details from your encounter
goal: justify and document your assessment of and plan to manage/monitor each of the patients conditions
When to do a full soap note?
documenting initial encounters
cases where note is the only record of information gathered
comprehensive medication reviews
When to do an abbreviated soap note
documenting focused/follow-up encounters
communicating recommendations to others
modifier significant/pertinent before note components
Subjective (SOAP)
descriptive info that cannot be confirmed by diagnostic tests/ procedures
patient/caregiver reported info
Objective (SOAP Notes)
data that can be measured objectively
practitioner observations, labels, info from clinical databases
Assessment (SOAP notes)
summarizes the pharmacists evaluation of the collected subjective and objective info
sets up the problems to be addressed by the plan
organized by disease state in a numbered list, most to least urgent
incorporate evidence-based goals of care
asses possible causes of drug therapy problems, diseases states, and medications