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PDC Healthcare Color-Coded Alert Products Case Study

PDC Healthcare’s Alert Wristbands Provide Visual Cues for Staff at a Non-Profit Hospital

Introduction

This case study of a non-profit is based on a May 2017 survey of PDC Healthcare Color-Coded Alert Products customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled organization asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled organization to evaluate and ultimately select PDC Healthcare Color-Coded Alert Products:

Experienced the following challenge prior to using color-coded alerts at their hospital:
- A lack of consistent alert identification
Found it somewhat difficult to identify patients with special risks before using PDC Healthcare’s color-coded alert products.
Chose PDC Healthcare’s color-coded alert products over other brands for the following reason:
- Ease of ordering through any channel

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of PDC Healthcare Color-Coded Alert Products that the surveyed organization uses:

Is currently using the following color-coded alert product at their hospital:
- Alert wristbands
Uses the following color-coded alerts at their hospital:
- Allergy (Red)
- DNR (Purple)
- Fall Risk (Yellow)
- Limb Alert (Pink)

Results

The surveyed organization achieved the following results with PDC Healthcare Color-Coded Alert Products:

Has experienced the following benefits since using the PDC Healthcare color coded alerts:
- Prevents confusion caused by a lack of standardization
- Meets state standardization guidelines
- Provides visual cues that prompt staff to check medical records
- Identifies special patient risks
Finds it significantly easier to identify special patient risks since using color-coded alert products from PDC Healthcare.

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PDC Healthcare’s Alert Wristbands Provide Visual Cues for Staff at a Non-Profit Hospital

Introduction

Challenges

Use Case

Results

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