Infrastructure Pain Management Clinic

A prerequisite for a successful medical clinic is a robust and organized infrastructure.The basic framework of a pain management clinic encompasses many aspects. One important component is documenting patient encounters. In high-volume clinics, it is challenging to document meticulously when patients are waiting in exam rooms and the physician is behind schedule. And in low-volume clinics, it is challenging to consistently write, type or dictate comprehensive, yet concise, and detailed...
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A prerequisite for a successful medical clinic is a robust and organized infrastructure.The basic framework of a pain management clinic encompasses many aspects. One important component is documenting patient encounters. In high-volume clinics, it is challenging to document meticulously when patients are waiting in exam rooms and the physician is behind schedule. And in low-volume clinics, it is challenging to consistently write, type or dictate comprehensive, yet concise, and detailed notes of patient visits.To minimize the risk of omissions, and failure to describe accurately the interventional procedure completed, templates are an almost required tool for documentation. Templates can standardize written communications. Practitioners who utilize professional templates for procedure notes, consistently have higher quality written communications that more accurately describe the interventional technique performed.Physicians spend many hours of their career writing, typing and dictating medical notes. Sometimes, those notes are similar, or the same as documented many other times on patients. This is especially true of procedure notes. For a procedure which a practitioner frequently performs, the physician essentially spends time writing, typing or dictating a sequence of events in the procedure room that is unchanged from one patient to the next. Utilizing templates not only speeds up the process, but more importantly, minimizes errors and consistently provides higher quality documentation. This can be helpful for insurance companies who require documentation and/or if malpractice carriers request medical records during litigation.The templates that are included in this book, have been used by the author over the course of years. He has revised them to their current draft to be professionally written. They are concise but still satisfyingly descriptive.