Appropriate post–upper EGD care in patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB) can improve patient outcomes and reduce cost, but not all recommendations are consistently followed. Researchers at the University of Colorado School of Medicine Anschutz Medical Campus, in Aurora, attempted to improve guideline adherence by adding a notes template to EHRs to prompt appropriate documentation and follow-up care.
The notes templates were tailored to the etiology and severity of the UGIB based on the 2007 American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases guidelines on variceal UGIB, the 2019 International Consensus Group guidelines on nonvariceal UGIB and established 2015 quality measures from the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy/American College of Gastroenterology Task Force on Quality in Endoscopy.