Spreading Standardized Documentation of Pediatric Occupational and Physical Therapy Dose: A Quality Improvement Initiative.

Documentation of dose was spread from one institution to another. Shared documentation will facilitate future collaboration for quality improvement and research purposes. Occupational therapy practitioners and leaders should consider implementing documentation with common dose elements. Plain-Language Summary: Occupational therapy documentation is often institution specific and may not adequately capture the dose of therapy (frequency, intensity, time) or types of interventions that were delivered, thus limiting opportunities for collaboration between institutions. This article adds to the literature on administrative supports for clinical and quality improvement research by illustrating a specific example of how documentation of dose can be shared from one institution to another. The data show that clinicians at one institution started using a new style of documentation using the FITT Epic® Flowsheet and shared discrete dose elements with another institution, creating new opportunities for collaboration. Shared documentation can facilitate future collaboration for quality improvement and research purposes.