16INTRODUCTION OF A POST TAKE WARD ROUND CHECKLIST STICKER ON A GERIATRICS ASSESSMENT UNIT: Table 1.

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Background: Hospital care of older adults with frailty is complex. The post-take ward round (PTWR) is a key moment at which this complexity can be managed. However, in the busy environment of an acute take it can be difficult to be consistently systematic and address all the points suggested by the joint college guidelines on the ward round. Checklist methodology was applied in an attempt to improve consistency and documentation within a Geriatric Assessment Unit. Innovation: A checklist containing 12 items deemed essential to an effective PTWR was developed in the form of a sticker to be placed in the patient's clinical record. The sticker acts as a prompt and allows any uncompleted task to be allocated to a specific team member for completion at the end of the PTWR. Evaluation: Pre-intervention data were collected by direct observation over a four week period on the PTWR. Consideration of checklist items was assessed prior to sticker introduction and senior clinicians were blind to the contents. The checklist was then introduced to three consultant teams. Post-intervention data were collected over a three week period. Hypothesis testing for proportions was carried out using the Chi-squared test.

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