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Electronic data collection by trainee anaesthetists using palm top computers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 August 2006

E. J. Hammond  and
B. P. Sweeney
E. J. Hammond
Affiliation:
Department of Anaesthesia, Poole Hospital, Poole, UK Present address: Department of Anaesthesia, Royal Perth Hospital, Wellington Street, Perth, Australia WA 6000.
B. P. Sweeney
Affiliation:
Department of Anaesthesia, Poole and Royal Bournemouth Hospital, Poole, UK
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Abstract

The Royal College of Anaesthetist requires that trainees wishing to specialise in Anaesthesia register with the College and keep a logbook documenting their experience and training in clinical anaesthesia. There are a number of advantages if such logbooks are kept in an electronic format. For the first time in the United Kingdom, we have evaluated the usefulness in a district general hospital of introducing a computerized system of record keeping based on a portable palm top computer. This has enabled the careful analysis of the individual work load of each trainee in the department by means of a specific program designed to generate a comprehensive report after the information from each individual has been downloaded on to a standard desk top computer. We have found a number of interesting and unexpected results and have highlighted ways in which the system may be improved.

Keywords

anaesthesiamedical educationmedical informatics
Type
Original Article
Information
European Journal of Anaesthesiology , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , February 2000 , pp. 91 - 98
Copyright
2000 European Society of Anaesthesiology

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