Table 6.
Rate of total working hours saved based on nurses after digitization.
Rate of time spent on hardcopy forms | Rate of time spent on digital forms | Rate of total working hours saved | |
---|---|---|---|
Nurse A | 20% | 7% | 13% |
Nurse B | 16% | 5% | 11% |
Nurse C | 17% | 6% | 11% |
Nurse D | 17% | 6.2% | 10.8% |
Since the the patient's account of their medical history form is a form that is filled out only once, the time saved by a nurse while filling out each the patient's account of their medical history form is divided by the total hospitalization days after calculation. The subsequent value found was summed up with the time savings delivered for other forms. Thus, the repetition of the time spent on the the patient's account of their medical history form was avoided.