Dr Juliana Ding1, Dr Fiona Britten1, Dr Michelle Cole1, Dr Madeline Duke1, Dr Jade Eccles-Smith1, Dr Karin Lust1, Dr Bianca Nightingale1, Dr Poulsen Katherine1, Dr Tanner Helen1, Dr Weatherburn Claire1, Dr Penny Wolksi1, Dr Keeri Young1, Dr Ann-Maree Craven1
1Royal Brisbane And Women's Hospital, Brisbane, Australia
Biography:
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Abstract:
The field of Obstetric Medicine is ever expanding with a growing number of women with complex medical issues requiring medical care during their pregnancies. The Royal Brisbane and Women’s hospital is a tertiary facility in southeast Queensland and the department of Obstetric medicine receives a large volume of referrals through the outpatient clinics. The RBWH Obstetric Medicine Registry was launched in September 2022. The registry consists of clinical details recorded for every new patient seen in all Obstetric medicine outpatient clinics at the RBWH (excluding the Cardiac Obstetrics Clinic and Gestational Diabetes Clinic, both of which have their own databases). The aim of the audit is to review the registry after 18 months of being operational and gain appreciation of the wide range of medical issues encountered in Obstetric medicine.
A retrospective audit of the RBWH Obstetric medicine registry was performed after 18 months of data collection between September 2022 to March 2024. Data has been collected and stored through the Queensland Metro North REDcap tool.
1425 patients were seen through the outpatient department during this timeframe. Among these, 328 (23.3%) of these patients were seen through a dedicated telehealth clinic at the RBWH servicing a large area of regional Queensland. The range medical conditions in the 1425 patients included: endocrine disorders (326), diabetes (330), gastrointestinal disorders (300), cardiac conditions (225), psychiatry (275), neurological disorders (241), hematological disorders (177), obesity (169), respiratory/ sleep disorders (159), nutritional (154), hypertension (142), rheumatology/ immunology (124), bariatric surgery (122), renal (85), hepatology (81), venous thromboembolism (77), infectious diseases (56), nicotine dependence (32) oncology ( 31), dermatology (27), transplant (9), and other disorders (171).
The registry will serve as a robust bank of valuable pregnancy related data to assist with audits, benchmarking, management of pregnancy related care and support future research.
Keywords
Registry, Audit