Conference proceeding
Home Care Admission Information: What Nurses Need and What Nurses Have. A Mixed Methods Study
NURSING INFORMATICS 2018: ICT TO IMPROVE QUALITY AND SAFETY AT THE POINT OF CARE, v 250, pp 164-168
01 Jan 2018
PMID: 29857421
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Abstract
Effective communication between clinicians across care settings is fundamental for continuity of care and decreased risk of errors. The home care admission often starts without important information needed for formulation of the plan of care. We conducted a mixed methods analysis to investigate home care admission information from two perspectives: qualitative information regarding information nurses reported they needed during an admission, and quantitative information regarding information actually available. We mapped both data sets to an international specification for transitions in care information, the Continuity of Care Document (CCD). The information that homecare nurses said they needed mapped sufficiently (90%) to the CCD. Regarding available information: no observation had all the CCD information present; CCD information was missing in varying amounts across the admission documents. Nurses searching among pages of documentation for information which may not be present is inefficient and introduces patient safety concerns of increased risk for errors.
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- Title
- Home Care Admission Information: What Nurses Need and What Nurses Have. A Mixed Methods Study
- Creators
- Paulina Sockolow - Drexel Univ, Coll Nursing & Hlth Profess, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USAChristine Wojciechowicz - Drexel Univ, Coll Nursing & Hlth Profess, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USAAnnika Holmberg - Univ Penn, Sch Nursing, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USAEllen J. Bass - Drexel Univ, Coll Nursing & Hlth Profess, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USASheryl Potashnik - Drexel Univ, Coll Nursing & Hlth Profess, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USAYushi Yang - Drexel Univ, Coll Comp & Informat, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USAKathryn H. Bowles - Univ Penn, Sch Nursing, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
- Contributors
- A K Rotegard (Editor)D J Skiba (Editor)S Barbosa (Editor)AGD Alcazar (Editor)
- Publication Details
- NURSING INFORMATICS 2018: ICT TO IMPROVE QUALITY AND SAFETY AT THE POINT OF CARE, v 250, pp 164-168
- 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:000468219900066
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85049224047
- Other Identifier
- 991019168339004721
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