The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Heath Care will undertake usability testing and piloting of four Observation and Response Charts (ORC) in a range of clinical settings commencing August 2010.
The Commission is extending its work on ORCs, which are to be used for recording patient observations and specifying actions to be taken in response to deterioration in the clinical state of the patient. The four ORCs in this initiative have been developed to incorporate different types of track and trigger systems, formal processes for tracking changes in vital signs and triggering a response when deterioration is identified.
For the usability testing phase, the ORC will be used in parallel with existing hospital observation charts. For each site participating in this study, the ORC used will be chosen to match the track and trigger system already in place. The ORC will also be customised according to the thresholds and actions required when deterioration was identified. This usability testing will be conducted in a small number of sites.
The piloting phase will include customising the ORC for each site and roll out across the whole hospital. This process will be conducted in a larger number of sites.
Work will be conducted from contractor’s office with additional travel required to participating testing and piloting sites.
Closing Date: 19/07/10
