TY - JOUR
T1 - Attending Physician Adherence to a 29-Component Central Venous Catheter Bundle Checklist during Simulated Procedures
AU - Barsuk, Jeffrey H.
AU - Cohen, Elaine R.
AU - Nguyen, Duyhuu
AU - Mitra, Debi
AU - O'Hara, Kelly
AU - Okuda, Yasuharu
AU - Feinglass, Joe
AU - Cameron, Kenzie A.
AU - McGaghie, William C.
AU - Wayne, Diane B.
PY - 2016/10/1
Y1 - 2016/10/1
N2 - Objectives: Central venous catheter insertions may lead to preventable adverse events. Attending physicians' central venous catheter insertion skills are not assessed routinely. We aimed to compare attending physicians' simulated central venous catheterinsertion performance to published competency standards. Design: Prospective cohort study of attending physicians' simulated internal jugular and subclavian central venous catheter insertion skills versus a historical comparison group of residents who participated in simulation training. Setting: Fifty-eight Veterans Affairs Medical Centers from February 2014 to December 2014 during a 2-day simulation-based education curriculum and two academic medical centers in Chicago. Subjects: A total of 108 experienced attending physicians and 143 internal medicine and emergency medicine residents. Intervention: None. Measurements and Main Results: Using a previously published central venous catheter insertion skills checklist, we compared Veterans Affairs Medical Centers attending physicians' simulated central venous catheter insertion performance to the same simulated performance by internal medicine and emergency medicine residents from two academic centers. Attending physician performance was compared to residents' baseline and posttest (after simulation training) performance. Minimum passing scores were set previously by an expert panel. Attending physicians performed higher on the internal jugular (median, 75.86% items correct; interquartile range, 68.97-86.21) and subclavian (median, 83.00%; interquartile range, 59.00-86.21) assessments compared to residents' internal jugular (median, 37.04% items correct; interquartile range, 22.22-68.97) and subclavian (median, 33.33%; interquartile range, 0.00-70.37; both p < 0.001) baseline assessments. Overall simulated performance was poor because only 12 of 67 attending physicians (17.9%) met or exceeded the minimum passing score for internal jugular central venous catheter insertion and only 11 of 47 (23.4%) met or exceeded the minimum passing score for subclavian central venous catheter insertion. Resident posttest performance after simulation training was significantly higher than attending physician performance (internal jugular: median, 96%; interquartile range, 93.10-100.00; subclavian: median, 100%; interquartile range, 96.00-100.00; both p < 0.001). Conclusions: This study demonstrates highly variable simulated central venous catheter insertion performance among a national cohort of experienced attending physicians. Hospitals, healthcare systems, and governing bodies should recognize that even experienced physicians require periodic clinical skill assessment and retraining.
AB - Objectives: Central venous catheter insertions may lead to preventable adverse events. Attending physicians' central venous catheter insertion skills are not assessed routinely. We aimed to compare attending physicians' simulated central venous catheterinsertion performance to published competency standards. Design: Prospective cohort study of attending physicians' simulated internal jugular and subclavian central venous catheter insertion skills versus a historical comparison group of residents who participated in simulation training. Setting: Fifty-eight Veterans Affairs Medical Centers from February 2014 to December 2014 during a 2-day simulation-based education curriculum and two academic medical centers in Chicago. Subjects: A total of 108 experienced attending physicians and 143 internal medicine and emergency medicine residents. Intervention: None. Measurements and Main Results: Using a previously published central venous catheter insertion skills checklist, we compared Veterans Affairs Medical Centers attending physicians' simulated central venous catheter insertion performance to the same simulated performance by internal medicine and emergency medicine residents from two academic centers. Attending physician performance was compared to residents' baseline and posttest (after simulation training) performance. Minimum passing scores were set previously by an expert panel. Attending physicians performed higher on the internal jugular (median, 75.86% items correct; interquartile range, 68.97-86.21) and subclavian (median, 83.00%; interquartile range, 59.00-86.21) assessments compared to residents' internal jugular (median, 37.04% items correct; interquartile range, 22.22-68.97) and subclavian (median, 33.33%; interquartile range, 0.00-70.37; both p < 0.001) baseline assessments. Overall simulated performance was poor because only 12 of 67 attending physicians (17.9%) met or exceeded the minimum passing score for internal jugular central venous catheter insertion and only 11 of 47 (23.4%) met or exceeded the minimum passing score for subclavian central venous catheter insertion. Resident posttest performance after simulation training was significantly higher than attending physician performance (internal jugular: median, 96%; interquartile range, 93.10-100.00; subclavian: median, 100%; interquartile range, 96.00-100.00; both p < 0.001). Conclusions: This study demonstrates highly variable simulated central venous catheter insertion performance among a national cohort of experienced attending physicians. Hospitals, healthcare systems, and governing bodies should recognize that even experienced physicians require periodic clinical skill assessment and retraining.
KW - central venous catheters
KW - clinical competence
KW - clinical experience
KW - mastery learning
KW - medical education
KW - simulation
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U2 - 10.1097/CCM.0000000000001831
DO - 10.1097/CCM.0000000000001831
M3 - Article
C2 - 27336437
AN - SCOPUS:84976325923
VL - 44
SP - 1871
EP - 1881
JO - Critical Care Medicine
JF - Critical Care Medicine
SN - 0090-3493
IS - 10
ER -