Toward Increased Patient Safety? Electronic Communication of Medication Information Between Nurses in Home Health Care and General Practitioners
Original version
Lyngstad, M., Melby, L., Grimsmo, A. & Hellesø, R. (2014) Toward Increased Patient Safety?: Electronic Communication of Medication Information Between Nurses in Home Health Care and General Practitioners. Home Health Care Management & Practice, 25(5), s. 203-211. 10.1177/1084822313480365Abstract
This study investigates how the use of an electronic messaging system influences patient safety in the medication information process between home health care nurses and general practitioners. Focus group interviews and semistructured interviews with 34 nurses and general practitioners were applied, and the results show that using a messaging system in the clinical communication and collaboration led to nurses in home health care and general practitioners more easily connecting, medication information being more accessible and medication information having a higher quality. The results also revealed that the use of a messaging system caused errors in the medication information. However, according to the nurses in home health care and general practitioners, the overall conclusion was that medication information improved and thereby patient safety increased.
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Artikkelen omhandler hvordan bruk av et elektronisk meldingssystem påvirker pasientsikkerheten ved overføring av legemiddelinformasjon mellom sykepleiere i hjemmesykepleien og fastleger.