New Assessment for New Discoveries

Despite clear policies and protocols, your health system might still see variability at the bedside that undermines HAC prevention efforts. Ongoing pressure injuries and infection rates indicate that reducing healthcare-associated conditions isn’t just a matter of protocols; it’s shaped by clinical workflow, product accessibility, staff training and organizational culture.

Medline’s Discovery Assessment gives us a deep understanding of utilization and processes to allow us to tailor our product recommendations to meet your specific needs. Drawing on thousands of assessments over nearly a decade, we have developed an updated version.

Multiple inputs, one clear view

The updated assessment integrates several data sources to produce a rounded picture of care delivery:

• Leadership interviews with nursing, infection prevention and education teams to document intended workflows and expectations.
• Frontline nurse surveys designed to reveal routine behaviors and decision making under pressure, not just policy recall.
• Observation by a Medline clinician to understand real-time practice
  and variance.
• Analysis of inventory and supply processes to identify opportunities for product standardization and benefits of implementing Medline kits.

Bringing together leadership views and bedside realities gives Medline unique insight into your needs and the needs of your clinicians, and means you get product recommendations designed to meet those needs.

Targeted questions for meaningful results

The updated questions focus on how care happens, not just whether a policy exists. This approach uncovers the real-world factors that affect consistency, like product availability, how well staff are trained on product usage and whether product-related workflows are practical under pressure. The findings are then summarized in a clear, one-page report that connects observations to specific product recommendations or supporting education.

A tool for sustained improvement

The revised Medline Discovery Assessment comes with a mobile app that helps make collecting and reporting data more straightforward. The analytics that are visible through the app help teams notice trends, spot emerging gaps and make more informed decisions. The goal is to enable Medline to make better product recommendations and provide better supporting education that empower you and your clinicians to provide optimal care.