implementation of a referral enhancement platform “why not just offer econsults?”
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Implementation of a Referral Enhancement Platform
“Why not just offer eConsults?”
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Program Aims
Innovations in the referral process:
1) Reduce delays in access to specially care
2) Improve care coordination between PCPs
and specialists
3) Improve the total value of care at UC Health
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Why address standard referrals & care-coordination broadly?
“Why not just do eConsults”
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Ask Specialists
“Many new patients leave the first visit very unhappy. When a patient has waited 3 months to see me, and I say that I can’t make an assessment without x and y pieces of data — that they will need to wait further and return before we can really get started…”
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Ask Specialists
“Some patients referred to [Nephrology] should have gone to Urology”
“We need to be alerted via pager if a patient has rising creatinine with hematuria or proteinuria”
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Ask Specialists
Specialists differ in their expectation of PCP collaboration.
“You don’t titrate the meds aggressively enough“
“I could not believe the PCP titrated my medication”
The Structured Referral Template addresses care-coordination expectations
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Because referrals typically include little clinical information, specialists often doubt the the feasibility of eConsult.
“The number of questions we could address via eConsult is going to be very small.”
Improvement in quality of standard referrals changes the relationship.
Ask Specialists
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“Sometimes people will go to cardiology twice a year and it doesn’t add a lot more than what I would have been doing if I had been seeing the patient.”
“Perennial follow-up”
Ask PCPs
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“It’s impossible for most patients to envision the realities of care coordination… More specialty care might not be better.”
“The worst is when we’re working at odds,”
Ask PCPs
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The process is the intervention
• Bringing PCPs and specialists together to
develop an eConsult program will unearth
crucial deficiencies and needs.
• The Structured Referral provides a point of
reference to implement problem-specific
solutions
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(If the patient has a rapid rise in creatinine, hematuria and new or worsening proteinuria, please page Nephrology
at 443-3751 along with submitting this referral.)
UCSF Experience
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My assessment that this patient is safe for an endoscopic procedure with sedation.
This patient, (please select any that apply)____ has had a recent MI or STROKE____ requires HOME OXYGEN____ is on ANTICOAGULATION therapy____ has a clinically significant CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIA ____ has a history of CHRONIC OPIATE or SUBSTANCE ABUSE____ has a history of a PSYCHIATRIC disorder to consider when planning
sedation.____ has severe OSA ____ Other co-morbidity that should be considered in consultation prior to sedation
If the patient has one of the above risks, @he@ will be scheduled in the GI clinic for an evaluation prior to the procedure.
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____CONSULTATION ONLY: Recommendations and Return to Primary Care
____CO-MANAGEMENT—PCP IS FIRST CALL____CO-MANAGEMENT—SPECIALIST IS FIRST
CALL
UCSF Experience
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Engage PCPs
• Gather PCP concerns
• Tell the humanizing stories from the specialist perspective
• Relationships: Co-management conferences
• Adapt the intervention. Maximize value for PCP
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Engage PCPs
• Share Data
– The referral rate among PCPs varies widely (see next slide)
– The structured referrals should offer decision support to advance PCP evaluation and conservative management
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Referrals / 100 Primary Care VisitBy Individual PCP
• Each bar represents an individual PCP