Using Triscribe tables - navigation toolkit
Triscribe is a complete view of hospital medicines usage. Our tables come with toolkit to help find the information you need to save an hour every week.
I promised a few weeks ago to write an article about tables in Triscribe. Depending on the tasks clinicians face, we display our analytics and AI in charts or in tables.
All designed so that you can find the information you need quickly and easily. You can find a quick brief on using charts here. You can also download our full features guide here or watch this short video to learn more.
Triscribe table features
Tables have much of the same functionality as charts. The filters button works in the same way, with options tailored to the needs and uses of each table. You can check the charts article or scroll down to read a review of these functions.
In Triscribe tables, there is also considerable drill down available on the main table. You can switch most numbers between numbers and percentages.
Click on the number or percentage in a row and you will access line-by-line breakdowns. For example, you can see the full list of medicines for which doses have been omitted. Or click to see the names of administrators who have given no reason for an omitted dose.
We have found that clinicians prefer tables when looking at predictive information. So in the current version of Triscribe you will find tables which cover:
● Active prescriptions of antibiotics.
● VTE - tracking omitted prophylactic doses to prevent venous thromboembolism.
● Safety indicators - list of patients at risk from unsafe prescriptions or administrations of medicines across 15+ medicines safety indicators.
● Prescribing - active prescriptions of any critical medicine.
● Admin burden - burden of complex administrations of medicines for every ward to help better staff allocation.
Use cases
Clinicians use these features to:
1. Identify learning needs. Reviewing omitted doses with no reason given helped nursing education manager spot a need for additional training.
2. Find lists of patients on specific medicines. Recent examples include topiramate prescribed on maternity wards and a list of all patients prescribed meropenem in a hospital.
3. Identify patients that need review. For example, antibiotic courses running longer than five days.
4. Identify patients at risk from a range of factors. Focus on VTE prophylaxis this year. Building other medicines safety indicators in response to clinician needs.
5. Plan resource allocations. Managers and clinicians use information about planned administrations of medicines and patients at risk to ensure they use scarce resources effectively every day.
Clinical judgement is vital in all these use cases. Triscribe saves clinicians time by getting the information they need when they need it, quickly and easily. That means less time on routine admin and more time doing what you best, delivering world class patient care.
You know best which information that would help you and your team save more time. If there is anything you would find useful that doesn’t seem to be available in Triscribe, please let me know. We would love to add features that help your specific needs.
Send me an email or schedule a 15 minute call to find out more or share your feedback.
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Reminder 1 - Triscribe chart filters
You will find our most useful features using the Filters stack (No 1.) in the top right corner of every chart. This allows you to choose what the chart or table displays.
The specific filters vary by chart. They might include a range of dates, medicines or groups of medicines, wards, patient demographics and routes of administration. You can see the filters available for each chart in our full product guide.
Notice there is another stack bar top left of each screen. This allows you to set the time intervals - day/week/month. So if you shift from a full year view to a single month, you might reset the chart to show daily rather than monthly data points.
Reminder 2: We need your help
We love to receive feedback and ideas from everyone, not just our customers, so we have set up a couple of simple forms to capture your ideas. Anything you send us will be anonymous and we promise to use it to make Triscribe better for everyone.
It would be great if you completed our survey on how Triscribe can save you at least one hour per week. Here is the link.
What am I missing? Let me know how we can use bed occupancy and admissions data to help hospitals manage better by following this link.
Thanks to those of you who have already completed one or both surveys.