Residents in anesthesia training programs are currently required to document clinical cases to make sure they receive thorough training. Current systems — including self-reporting — can result in delayed updates and misreported data. To improve the system of documentation, anesthesia information management systems are increasingly used to provide a logical source for verifiable documentation. Researchers conducted a systematic review of American College of Graduate Medical Education requirements and AIMS records to determine whether AIMS could replace the current manual process.
The researchers found that manually-entered cases were rife with errors, with more than 50 percent of residents either underreporting or overreporting total case counts by at least 5 percent. By comparison, the AIMS database was much more accurate, suggesting that accreditation organizations should support uploading of AIMS-based case log files to decrease the clerical burden on residents, according to the report.
Read the abstract on the study in Anesthesia & Analgesia.
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