Efficacy of multimodal intervention strategy in improving perioperative anaesthetic documentation in a tertiary care hospital

The study was aimed to assess if multimodal intervention strategies are effective in improving perioperative anaesthetic documentation. Perioperative anaesthetic documentation is an integral part of patient care. Similar study has not been undertaken in our institution and for that matter, literature search didnt give any results from India. we used a scoring system to assess the efficacy of documentation. the same scoring was used to compare pre and post intervention groups. Multimodal intervention strategies included one to one classes, lecture sessions, posters etc. The study has been completed .

Our conclusion is that  there is a significant deficiency in perioperative anaesthetic documentation. By creating better awareness of existing guidelines on anaesthetic documentation, multimodal intervention strategies resulted in higher perioperative documentation scores. Scores were lower in emergency cases than in elective cases in both groups. Postoperative instructions for analgesics, fluid and oxygen therapy form an integral part of anaesthetic notes and their importance needs to be emphasised.