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Constipation — Goals and Metrics — Clinical Pathway: Emergency Department and Inpatient

Constipation Clinical Pathway — Emergency Department and Inpatient

Goals

  • Diagnose functional constipation using evidence-based history and physical exam criteria
  • Standardize ED and inpatient:
    • Classification and identification of high risk patients
    • Treatment of constipation
    • Discharge education and instructions
  • Provide timely educational resources to increase safety in constipation medication administration

ED Metrics

  • Decrease 72 hr revisit rate (with and without hospitalization) of children discharged home with the diagnosis of constipation
  • Decrease % of children with the diagnosis of constipation with 1 view abdominal X-ray
  • Increase order set utilization

Inpatient Metrics

  • Decrease revisits to the ED (after hospital discharge) within 30 days and readmissions
  • Increase % discharged with constipation action plan
  • Increase order set utilization

 

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