QUESTION The PATA case study (can be found under 'Week 2' readings in the reading list) ends with three ideas for change: · Extend hours to enable 45 mins between appointments (rather than having 4...

THE ASPECT OF DELAYED PRE-ADMISSION TESTING OF PATIENTS: THE PATA CASE STUDY
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Q1. What are the theoretical aspects relating to the issues of Delayed Pre-Admission Testing of Patients at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)?    3
Q2. What is relevance of the initially sought solutions for solving delayed pre-admission test of patients at MGH?    4
Q3. What steps should be taken to solve the issue of Pre-Admission Testing of patients at MGH?    4
References    6
Q1. What are the theoretical aspects relating to the issues of Delayed Pre-Admission Testing of Patients at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)?
I, as an intern at Massachusetts General Hospital, had the advantage of assessing the situation that revolved around the issues of delayed pre-admission testing of patients, from a close range. As stated by He et al. (2018), pre-admission testing of patients are essential as they determine the level of risk faced by patient, who is about to undergo surgery and therefore, needs anaesthesia. MGH has one of the oldest and most trusted Pre-Admission Testing Area (PATA) in United States and offers its services to an average of 135 patients each day. In addition to the high number of patients coming in for pre-admission testing, the care providers, which include the medical practitioners, nurses, and care attendants, do not compromise with the quality of the tests, which consumes a lot of time. As a combined result of the thorough check up and huge number of patients in queue some patients have to undergo long waiting periods. As supported by Leeman et al. (2018), in order to ensure safety to the health of the patients, tedious and long waited procedures are undertaken, which in most cases cannot be supplemented by time saving fast test assessments.
It is also seen that in many cases, based on the condition of the patients they are forwarded before patients waiting in the queue. This has lead to i
itation among patients, as they had to wait longer in the queue than others. As an intern I noticed that there were not fixed guidelines for deciding the level of urgency for a patient, which makes the i
itation of the waiting patients long and exhausting. The general process of the test, themselves take a lot of time, which farther lengthens the waiting period. Due to the dependency of manual data inputs and data recording, a patient has to go through repeated process of answering the same question. As affirmed by Muhsin et al. (2018), manual input of data at the time of medical tests, makes the entire process slow and very exhausting. I felt that manual inputs of data increases the chance of human e
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