Streamlining care in crisis: rapid creation and implementation of a digital support tool for COVID-19.

Nicholas Stark; Michaela Kerrissey; Madeline Grade; Beth Berrean; Christopher Peabody

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Streamlining care in crisis: rapid creation and implementation of a digital support tool for COVID-19.

October 21, 2020

Stark N, Kerrissey M, Grade M, et al. West J Emerg Med. 2020;21(5):1095-1101.

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This article describes the development and implementation of a digital tool to centralize and standardize COVID-19-related resources for use in the emergency department (ED). Clinician feedback suggests confirms that the tool has affected their management of COVID-19 patients. The tool was found to be easily adaptable to accommodate rapidly evolving guidance and enable organizational capacity for improvisation and resiliency.

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