Conference proceeding
Availability and Quality of Information Used by Nurses While Admitting Patients to a Rural Home Health Care Agency
MEDINFO 2019: HEALTH AND WELLBEING E-NETWORKS FOR ALL, v 264, pp 798-802
01 Jan 2019
PMID: 31438034
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Abstract
Home health care admission nurses need high quality patient information but that information is not uniformly available. Despite this challenge, these nurses must make four critical decisions at patient admission to construct the plan of care: (1) patient problems to address in the home health care episode; (2) patient medication management; (3) services in addition to skilled nursing; and (4) skilled nursing visit pattern. We observed 12 in-home admissions at a rural home health care agency and interviewed nurses before and after about these decisions. We analyzed content and quality of documents. To evaluate quality, for each decision we assessed concordance between documents. Interview responses provided context in the analysis. Across all admissions, documents and their contents were not uniformly present. Nurses rarely received visit pattern or medication management information. There was discordance in the number of patient problems among and between available documents and the plan of care. Electronic health record design recommendations include interoperability and structured, consistent, actionable information.
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- Title
- Availability and Quality of Information Used by Nurses While Admitting Patients to a Rural Home Health Care Agency
- Creators
- Paulina S. Sockolow - Drexel University College of Nursing and Health ProfessionsEllen J. Bass - Drexel UniversityYushi Yang - Drexel University College of Computing and InformaticsNatasha B. Le - University of PennsylvaniaSheryl Potashnik - Drexel University College of Nursing and Health ProfessionsKathryn H. Bowles - University of Pennsylvania
- Contributors
- L OhnoMachado (Editor)B Seroussi (Editor)
- Publication Details
- MEDINFO 2019: HEALTH AND WELLBEING E-NETWORKS FOR ALL, v 264, pp 798-802
- Series
- Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
- Publisher
- Ios Press
- Number of pages
- 5
- Grant note
- R01 HS024537 / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ); United States Department of Health & Human Services; Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Information Science; Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering; Health Sciences Division
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000569653400160
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85071416283
- Other Identifier
- 991019168811304721
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- Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
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