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Point of Care Testing - Conference Innovators 1 kati blattner.pdf · 2009-06-23 · Rawene Hospital...
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Point of Care Testing(POCT)
Rawene Hospital 2009
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Rawene Hospital
• Part of Hauora Hokianga Trust
• Integrated Health service ( PHO NGO)
• Care across the primary –secondary
interface
• Fragmented funding
• Docs are generalists ( GPs/RHD)
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Rawene Hospital 2
• 24/7 acute service
• 10 acute beds 4 maternity beds
• Base Hospital at Whangarei 2hrs
• 750 acute admissions, 25% transfer WBH
• No lab, Xray Mon-Fri
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• 70 % Maori
• Deprivation index 9-10
• High prevalence of cardiac disease,
renal disease, diabetes mellitus,
COPD, cancer…
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POCT
• Portable
• Stand alone
• good evidence that POCT is reliable with quality control systems
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POCT analysers in NZ:
• Used in several NZ rural hospitals in conjunction with an on site laboratory
• Use in a small rural hospital with no on-site laboratory ?
• The planned introduction of POCT at Rawene = an opportunity…
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Before POCT
• Laboratory service on a “send away”
basis : to Whangarei Mon-Fri
• From 10am Friday until 10 am Monday no
lab at all
• Turn around Time (TAT) : 8-72 hours
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Most standard guidelines for medical
emergencies include basic lab tests as part
of the initial assessment and management
and to guide ongoing care…
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Where we saw an urgent need for
POCT:
• Acute emergency presentations needing
resuscitation /stabilisation and transfer
• Patients with the potential to become
acutely unwell
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The Impact of Point-of-care-testing
on Decision Making by General
Practitioners in a Small Rural
Hospital
Rural Innovation Fund Grant
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Objectives:
• Assess the impact of POCT on patient management
• Assess the acceptability of POCT to clinicians
• Quality Assurance
• To evaluate costs vs benefits
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• Part I : a prospective observational
study
• Part II : Clinician Interviews
• Part III: Implementation of Quality
Control programme
• Part IV: Cost-benefit analysis
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Collaboration…
• Hauora Hokianga
• University Otago
• Senior Clinicians at Whangarei Hospital
• Laboratory services, POCT co ordinator
Whangarei Hospital
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Methods part I
• Doctors completed a standard pro-forma each time they ordered a POCT
• Disposition
• Differential Diagnosis
• Management
pre and post- POCT
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Methods part II
• Semi- structured interviews with doctors,
nurses, community health workers,
management
• Interviews recorded, transcribed, analysed
• Thematic analysis
• Computer assisted qualitative data
analysis software package
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Tests available
• CHEM8: sodium , potassium , chloride , glucose , creatinine,
ionised calcium, urea, Haematocrit, Haemoglobin
• CG8: blood gas, sodium,potassium, glucose, Haematocrit ,
Haemoglobin
• TnI: troponin I
• BNP: B- natriuretic peptide
• INR: international normalised ratio
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What did we find ?
• Over 6 months POCT was undertaken on
177 patients.
• POCT used for around 70% of
admissions
• POCT used much more often at weekends
• Chem 8 used most often followed by
Troponin. CG8( ABG) used least
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Impact of patient transfer
decisions
….there was a statistically
significant difference in the
disposition of patients before and
after testing (Fisher’s Exact test 29.656:
p<0.001).
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Impact on patient transfer decisions
Changes in Disposition pre- and post-test: All cases
admitted
discharged
transferred
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20
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60
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pre-test post test
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• POCT altered disposition for 43 % of
patients (75 of 176, Fisher’s Exact test 29.656: p<0.001).
• Transfer admit (77%).
• Admit discharge (22%).
• Admit transfer ( 6%)
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2 ways that POCT influenced
transfer decisions
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Avoiding unnecessary transfer:
“ … a patient with renal failure … creatinine
in the mid 300‟s ….the fact that we knew
we could take his creatinine on Saturday
made it a lot easier to manage him here so
we changed his medication… and on
Saturday it had dropped down to 200 so
we knew we were heading in the right
direction… (Doctor)”
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Expediting Transfer
POCT has enabled transfer decisions to be made earlier than they otherwise would have which has often meant that treatment can begin immediately …
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• “..patient with a really high potassium …she came in quite symptomatic … when we did the blood test it confirmed that… we were able to start the treatment prior to transferring her out. So she actually got immediate treatment rather than having to wait two hours prior to [arrival at Whangarei hospital] – at least two hours really, so I thought that was a really good call.” (Doctor)
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… if you have a test result to go with
them… that gives you a more definite
reason to transfer someone as well…
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Diagnostic Certainty
• There was a significant reduction in the number
of diagnoses considered as part of the post test
differential compared to the pre test differential.
• Diagnoses pre test: 2.5
• Diagnoses post test: 1.3 ( paired t-tests p< 0.001)
• POCT narrowed the differential diagnosis for
94% of patients.
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Respondents considered that POCT had
made an enormous impact on their
ability to diagnose challenging
patients.
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Change in Management
POCT resulted in a substantial change in
treatment in 75% of cases, some change in
22% of cases and no change in 3% of cases.
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“.. I think for me, the bigger thing is keeping somebody with confidence as opposed to keeping them and thinking, „oh should I or shouldn‟t I‟. There is that uncertainty ” ( doctor)
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We would be flying by the seat of our pants from Friday 10.30 until Monday at five o‟clock… it sounds terrible doesn‟t it. But I–have lived with that for – I have been here since 1977 so you use clinical judgment and skills. (Doctor)
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“It made you feel much more confident in
managing them here or ….in transferring
them, or discussing them with a
consultant. It really should be part of the
routine management when they present
acutely and I guess we hadn‟t been doing
that before. (Doctor)”
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POCT enabled clinical staff to feel better
about patients returning to relatively
isolated homes across the harbour
particularly as the ferry only sails during
daylight hours.
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The Challenge
• Increased workload
• Higher standard of practice
• Upskilling
• Time-consuming
• Over-testing
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Increased workload ?
• … our ability to manage more and more
people here...anything new that you can
do changes the boundaries in what we
do… and we are doing …. very long
weekends when we are covering a ward
that can have some quite sick people plus
we are doing outpatients and A&E at the
same time. So it is a bit of a challenge
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Up skilling :
“….having that blood result means that you
have got to have the capacity to interpret
it. POCT has forced me to go back to the
books and read up about pH and all that
kind of thing again to make sure that I can
interpret it so you are confronted with that,
yes.” ( doctor)
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Time consuming …
“….in the middle of the night when it is just
me and the nurse and a really sick
person… All our hands are full trying to put
lines in and do all the other things ….
(POCT) is going to take an extra – ten
minutes of the nurses time – away from
the patient… where do you fit it into an
emergency situation and what priority do
you give it?” ( doctor)
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Over-testing
“You have the younger doctors, who come
in and… do tests on everyone…
whereas some of the experienced doctors
here have learnt to function without them
( blood tests) and there is something good
about that as well” (Doctor)
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Part III Quality Assurance Systems
The lab staff is YOU !
• Training and certification of Staff
• Procedure documentation
• Quality Control Programmes
• Cost
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Costs
• Equipment
• Consumables
• Quality programme
• Staffing
• Training
• Overheads
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Tangible Benefits
• RH admission : $4000
• WBH admission $5000
• Transfer $1900
• Savings to DHB: cost of transfer, lab
services, admissions to WBH
• Overall cost saving to Northland
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Improved access to appropriate care for rurally isolated and high-needs Maori community
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Improved job satisfaction for
rural clinicians
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• Although POCT has proved more
expensive to run than initially anticipated,
sources for future funding are being
explored by Hauora Hokianga because the
service is considered to be of significant
benefit..
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• At the time this talk was drafted there was
increasing optimism that the Northland
DHB would fund the continuation of this
service
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Transferability
Key factors:
The travel time from Rawene Hospital to
base hospital and its laboratory service
demographics of the population
Make up of clinical staff
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Rural areas : blurred boundaries
• Primary vs Secondary Care: both can be rural
• Specialist vs Generalist
• GP practice vs A&M clinic vs Hospital ED etc
• Rural Hospitals
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Should quick easy access to basic lab
tests not be a core service for all
NZers presenting with acute
emergency medical problems ?
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