Table 1.
Highest and lowest sign-out tool usage estimates for units sorted by proportion of unique sign-out cases to unique order cases.
| Unique sign-out cases/unique order cases | Total printed/unique sign-out cases | Unique notes/unique sign-out cases | Total unique notes | Total printed notes | Unique order cases | Unique sign-out cases | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Neonatal ICU | 100.00% | 12.01 | 9.28 | 6042 | 7817 | 637 | 651 |
| Trauma ICU | 99.87% | 13.32 | 1.56 | 1230 | 10484 | 788 | 787 |
| Pediatric medicine | 99.35% | 4.02 | 3.14 | 4287 | 5498 | 1375 | 1366 |
| Neuro ICU | 97.47% | 9.64 | 2.17 | 1004 | 4464 | 475 | 463 |
| Renal | 96.93% | 9.00 | 1.82 | 974 | 4824 | 553 | 536 |
| Pediatric cardiology | 96.64% | 9.56 | 4.47 | 1411 | 3021 | 327 | 316 |
| Adult medicine | 96.12% | 8.71 | 2.81 | 4180 | 12931 | 1545 | 1485 |
| Neurology | 95.74% | 7.14 | 1.24 | 1140 | 6575 | 962 | 921 |
| Medical ICU | 95.54% | 14.46 | 1.27 | 705 | 8052 | 583 | 557 |
| Pediatric critical care | 90.03% | 6.86 | 4.72 | 3068 | 4456 | 722 | 650 |
| Pediatric surgery | 45.09% | 2.61 | 1.84 | 398 | 563 | 479 | 216 |
| Labor & delivery | 40.62% | 1.05 | 1.80 | 1042 | 607 | 1428 | 580 |
| Cardiac ICU | 39.82% | 2.01 | 1.11 | 294 | 531 | 663 | 264 |
| Cardiac cath lab | 35.15% | 1.12 | 1.23 | 714 | 648 | 1653 | 581 |
| Orthopaedics | 33.93% | 6.06 | 0.87 | 295 | 649 | 1266 | 214 |
| Women's surgery | 31.02% | 1.31 | 2.75 | 876 | 417 | 1025 | 318 |
| Surgical ICU | 30.60% | 3.58 | 1.46 | 180 | 440 | 402 | 123 |
| Burn | 29.52% | 4.23 | 1.61 | 50 | 131 | 105 | 31 |
| Surgical stepdown | 25.89% | 5.47 | 3.40 | 667 | 1072 | 757 | 196 |
| General surgery | 16.49% | 2.64 | 1.39 | 239 | 454 | 1043 | 172 |