It has been great to hear recently that lots of organisations are making use of the electronic delegation log that EDGE has to offer. Especially due to recent times with everything that is going on with COVID-19, it can be even harder to track down those wet ink signatures.
The EDGE delegation log was developed a few years ago now to reduce the burden of paper logs and to make the whole signature process a lot easier. Where the log is easily accessible via EDGE it saves staff a lot of time by being able to access the log anywhere with a computer or device, they could be in their office, in clinic, or even on the go. This already saves research staff valuable time in which they can spend elsewhere, for example seeing and treating their patients. Having the log online also means everyone is working from one version and there is no chance of it getting lost like a paper one sometimes can.
User feedback has included how monitoring visits are a lot easier as the latest version is always the one on EDGE which can be viewed online or a printed copy made available if the site monitor prefers.
The delegation log is also improving communication across different teams and helping provide a better patient experience. One of the CRUK nurses based at Southampton hospital has told us how previously with a paper log they would sometimes have to leave the clinic or unit where they are treating patients to go back to their office, collect the log from the site file and take it over to pharmacy. Now, the nursing team are able to remain treating their patients whilst the pharmacy team can simply log onto EDGE and access the latest version themselves, meaning better communication and no interruption is caused to the patients being treated.
We already know that the delegation log is helping lots of teams work more efficiently and we envision over time the usage which continue to increase as more clinical teams become engaged with using the online version.
If you’re an EDGE user and want to know more about the delegation log, then please get in touch as we have a user guide and video available for more information. Email edgecomms@soton.ac.uk