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Rahayu SA, Widianto S, Defi IR, Abdulah R. Does power distance in healthcare teams linked to patient satisfaction? A multilevel study of interprofessional care teams in a referral hospital in Indonesia. BMC Health Serv Res 2024; 24:83. [PMID: 38229081 DOI: 10.1186/s12913-023-10534-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2023] [Accepted: 12/28/2023] [Indexed: 01/18/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Interprofessional care teams collaborate to provide care to patients in hospitals to ensure their full recovery. To provide quality patient care, healthcare workers must have a comprehensive understanding of each other's roles and collaborate effectively. Good interpersonal skills are also essential for maintaining cooperative and collaborative relationships, listening, and respecting other team member's values and positions. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the effect of power distance in interprofessional care on patients' satisfaction. METHOD A quantitative study was conducted in a hospital by using a questionnaire instrument to collect information from patients and members of the interprofessional care team. The respondents included 10 geriatric, 19 palliative, 36 cancer, 8 burn, and 18 medical intermediate care (MIC) teams. Subsequently, a hierarchical regression analysis was conducted to examine whether interprofessional care could significantly predict the relationship between team power distance and patient satisfaction. RESULTS The measurement of the effect of power distance in interprofessional care among doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and nutritionists on patient satisfaction revealed nonsignificant results. However, the final analysis indicated negative coefficients with regard to power distance for nutritionists (-0.033098), nurses (-0.064912), and pharmacists (-0.006056). These findings indicated that the power distance associated with these professions was linked with decreased patient satisfaction. CONCLUSIONS The results suggested that power distance within an interprofessional care team can reduce patient satisfaction.
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- Susi Afrianti Rahayu
- Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Universitas Padjadjaran, Jatinangor, 45363, Indonesia
- Bumi Siliwangi College of Pharmacy, Bandung, Indonesia
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- Department of Management and Business, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Padjadjaran, Jatinangor, 45363, Indonesia
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- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Padjadjaran, Jatinangor, 45363, Indonesia
- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Hasan Sadikin Hospital, Bandung, Indonesia
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- Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Universitas Padjadjaran, Jatinangor, 45363, Indonesia.
- Center for Excellence for Pharmaceutical Care Innovation, Universitas Padjadjaran, Jatinangor, Indonesia.
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Bellali T, Liamopoulou P, Karavasileiadou S, Almadani N, Galanis P, Kritsotakis G, Manomenidis G. Intention, Motivation, and Empowerment: Factors Associated with Seasonal Influenza Vaccination among Healthcare Workers (HCWs). Vaccines (Basel) 2023; 11:1508. [PMID: 37766184 PMCID: PMC10534342 DOI: 10.3390/vaccines11091508] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2023] [Revised: 09/16/2023] [Accepted: 09/20/2023] [Indexed: 09/29/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Vaccination against seasonal influenza has proven effective in preventing nosocomial influenza outbreaks among hospital patients and healthcare workers (HCWs). This study aims to explore the intention, motivation, and empowerment toward vaccination and vaccination advocacy as contributing factors for seasonal influenza vaccination in HCWs. METHODS A cross-sectional study in eight secondary hospitals in Greece was conducted from March to May 2022. An anonymous questionnaire was enclosed in an envelope and distributed to all participants, including questions on vaccine behavior and the MoVac-flu and MoVad scales. RESULTS A total of 296 participants completed the questionnaire. In multivariate logistic regression models adjusted for potential confounders, increased age, intention score, MoVac-flu scale score, and the presence of chronic diseases were significant predictors of influenza vaccination this year, while increased age, intention score, and presence of chronic diseases were predictors of vaccination every year. CONCLUSION Vaccination uptake is simultaneously affected by logical cognitive processes (intention), together with factors related to motivation and empowerment in distinct self-regulatory domains such as value, impact, knowledge, and autonomy. Interventions focused on these identified predictors may be used as a guide to increase HCWs' vaccination rates.
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- Thalia Bellali
- Department of Health Sciences, School of Sciences, European University Cyprus, Nicosia 2404, Cyprus
- Faculty of Nursing, International Hellenic University, 57400 Thessaloniki, Greece;
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- Faculty of Nursing, International Hellenic University, 57400 Thessaloniki, Greece;
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- Department of Community Health Nursing, College of Nursing, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh 11671, Saudi Arabia; (S.K.); (N.A.)
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- Department of Community Health Nursing, College of Nursing, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh 11671, Saudi Arabia; (S.K.); (N.A.)
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- Faculty of Nursing, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11524 Athens, Greece;
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- Department of Business Administration & Tourism, Hellenic Mediterranean University, 72300 Herakleion, Greece;
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- Faculty of Nursing, International Hellenic University, Didimoteicho Branch, 57400 Thessaloniki, Greece;
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Eines TF, Storm M, Grønvik CKU. Interprofessional collaboration in a community virtual ward: A focus group study. Scand J Caring Sci 2023; 37:677-686. [PMID: 36710599 DOI: 10.1111/scs.13152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2022] [Revised: 01/05/2023] [Accepted: 01/14/2023] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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BACKGROUND The problem of a lack of nurses is expected to worsen in the future. With an ever-increasing number of elderly patients with multimorbidity and a shortage of healthcare professionals, primary care must innovatively organise their services to offer more sustainable healthcare services. Organising healthcare services in a community virtual ward has been found to improve the quality of life for vulnerable elderly populations. AIM The aim of the study was to explore healthcare professionals' experiences of interprofessional collaboration in care for patients with multimorbidity in a community virtual ward in the Norwegian context. METHODS Focus group interviews were conducted in this qualitative exploratory study. A purposive sample of 17 healthcare professionals working in a community virtual ward in Norway was interviewed. Data were analysed using thematic analysis. RESULTS The study results show that healthcare professionals recognise a need for patient involvement in the community virtual ward to offer more sustainable healthcare services at home. Furthermore, the results show how healthcare professionals experience the use of assessment tools and whiteboard meetings as useful tools for facilitating interprofessional collaboration. The study results also describe how interprofessional and holistic follow-up with patients with multimorbidity contributes to increased focus on health promotion in the community virtual ward. CONCLUSION We found that interprofessional collaboration in community virtual wards may be a sustainable way of organising healthcare services for patients with multimorbidity living at home. Interprofessional collaboration with a patient-centred and health promotion approach, seems to increase the quality of the follow-up for patients with multimorbidity living at home. Additionally, mutual interprofessional trust and respect seems to be essential for making use of the unique expertise of different professions in the follow-up for patients with multimorbidity. In the future, both the patient's voice and opinion of their next of kin should be considered in the development of more sustainable homecare services.
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- Molde University College, Molde, Norway
- Stavanger University, Stavanger, Norway
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Kainth R, Reedy G. Transforming Professional Identity in Simulation Debriefing: A Systematic Metaethnographic Synthesis of the Simulation Literature. Simul Healthc 2023; Publish Ahead of Print:01266021-990000000-00072. [PMID: 37335122 DOI: 10.1097/sih.0000000000000734] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/21/2023]
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SUMMARY STATEMENT There continues to be a lack of detailed understanding of how debriefing works and how it enables learning. To further our understanding and simultaneously illuminate current knowledge, a metaethnographic qualitative synthesis was undertaken to address the research question: how are interactions in simulation debriefing related to participant learning? Ten databases were searched (up to November 2020) and 17 articles were selected for inclusion.Initial interpretive synthesis generated 37 new concepts that were further synthesized to produce a new theoretical framework. At the heart of the framework is a concept of reflective work, where participants and faculty recontextualize the simulation experience bidirectionally with clinical reality: a process that facilitates sensemaking. This occurs in a learning milieu where activities such as storytelling, performance evaluation, perspective sharing, agenda setting, and video use are undertaken. The outcome is conceptualization of new future roles, clinical competence, and professional language development-a process of transforming professional identity.
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- Ranjev Kainth
- From the Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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Villarreal-Zegarra D, Torres-Puente R, Castillo-Blanco R, Cabieses B, Bellido-Boza L, Mezones-Holguin E. Development of the set of scales to assess the job satisfaction among physicians in Peru: validity and reliability assessment. BMC Public Health 2021; 21:1932. [PMID: 34689727 PMCID: PMC8543768 DOI: 10.1186/s12889-021-11964-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2020] [Accepted: 10/11/2021] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Background To assess the validity and reliability of the set of scales (general professional activity, health services management, and working conditions) on the different areas of job satisfaction in Peruvian physicians based on the data from the National Survey of Satisfaction of Users in Health (ENSUSALUD). Method We carried out a psychometric study based on the secondary data analysis of Questionnaire 2 of ENSUSALUD-2016. Participants were selected from a two-stage stratified national probability representative sampling by political region. Validity was assessed by exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, and measurement invariance analysis. We assessed the reliability using internal consistency coefficients (alpha and omega). The set of scales were composed of items related to three different areas of job satisfaction: 1) satisfaction with general professional activity, 2) satisfaction with the health services management, and 3) satisfaction with the working conditions of the health center. Results We included 2137 participants in the analysis. The general professional activity scale with six items (Comparative Fit Index, CFI = 0.946; Root Mean Square Error of Approximation, RMSEA = 0.071; Standardized Root Mean Square Residual, SRMR = 0.035), the health services management scale with eight items (CFI) = 0.972; RMSEA = 0.081; SRMR = 0.028), showed good measurement properties for the one-dimensional model. The working conditions scale with eight items for individual conditions and three items for infrastructural conditions (CFI = 0.914; RMSEA = 0.080; SRMR = 0.055) presented adequate measurement properties with a two-dimensional model. The invariance analysis showed that comparisons between sex, age, civil status, medical speciality, working in other institutions, work-related illness, chronic disease, and time working in the healthcare center. All scales had adequate internal consistency (ω and α between 0.70 and 0.90). Conclusions The set of scales has a solid factorial structure and measurement invariance, making it possible for group comparison. The study achieved stability in the scores as they showed adequate internal consistency coefficients. Based on our findings, these instruments are suitable for measuring job satisfaction among outpatient physicians throughout Peru, as our data is representative of the country level. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12889-021-11964-6.
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- David Villarreal-Zegarra
- Universidad César Vallejo, Escuela de Medicina, Trujillo, Peru.,Instituto Peruano de Orientación Psicológica, Lima, Peru
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- Universidad del Pacífico, Gestión del Aprendizaje y Aseguramiento de la Calidad, Lima, Peru
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- Universidad del Desarrollo, Facultad de Medicina Clínica Alemana, Instituto de Ciencias e Innovación en Medicina (ICIM), Santiago de Chile, Chile
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- Intendencia de Investigación y Desarrollo Superintendencia Nacional de Salud, Lima, Peru.,Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Lima, Peru
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- Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola, Centro de Excelencia en Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales en Salud, Lima, Peru. .,Epi-gnosis Solutions, Piura, Peru.
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Depressive symptoms and professional satisfaction in Greek nursing personnel in the realm of European financial crisis. Appl Nurs Res 2021; 67:151486. [PMID: 34509359 DOI: 10.1016/j.apnr.2021.151486] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2020] [Revised: 07/30/2021] [Accepted: 08/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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BACKGROUND The ongoing economic crisis in Europe, including Greece, has been linked with increased psychiatric morbidity and financial rewards reduction, both related to job dissatisfaction. AIM We explored among Greek nursing personnel the degree of satisfaction from wages, and associations with depressive symptoms and total professional satisfaction. Also, associations with socio-demographic, educational and employment variables were explored. METHODS A cross-sectional study was applied (July to August 2015). A census sample of 66 members of nursing personnel employed in a randomly selected Greek public hospital completed the Index of Work Satisfaction and the Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression scale. Descriptive and inferential statistics were applied. RESULTS The response rate was 73.4%. The degree of satisfaction from wages was low [mean (SD) = 2.1(0.13)-scale range/item 1-7], and strongly positively associated with total professional satisfaction (r = 0.419, P = 0.005). Also, those working in morning shift reported higher degree of work satisfaction from wages (P = 0.05) compared to those working in rotation shifts. Total professional satisfaction was moderate [mean (SD)/item = 3.93(0.05)-scale range/item: 1-7]. Higher depressive symptom values were observed in deputy head nurses compared to nursing assistants (P = 0.011) and staff nurses (P = 0.02), as well as in employees working in morning shifts compared to those working in rotation shifts (P = 0.013). CONCLUSIONS An association between satisfaction from wages and total professional satisfaction was noted; yet, there was no link of depressive symptoms with satisfaction from wages, or total professional satisfaction. Instead, satisfaction from wages and intensity of depressive symptoms were associated with organizational/administrative polices and employment variables.
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Kritsotakis G, Gkorezis P, Andreadaki E, Theodoropoulou M, Grigoriou G, Alvizou A, Kostagiolas P, Ratsika N. Nursing practice environment and employee silence about patient safety: The mediating role of professional discrimination experienced by nurses. J Adv Nurs 2021; 78:434-445. [PMID: 34337760 DOI: 10.1111/jan.14994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2020] [Revised: 05/18/2021] [Accepted: 07/20/2021] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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AIMS To examine the associations between nurse work environment with nurses' silence about patient safety and the mediating effects of professional discrimination experienced by nurses. DESIGN Multicentre cross-sectional study. METHODS Between January and April 2019, 607 nurses and nursing assistants from seven hospitals in Greece assessed their clinical environment using the 'Practice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index Revised-PES-NWIR', and the silence about patient safety. The 'Experiences of Discrimination Index' was adapted to specifically address experienced discrimination based on the nursing profession. The PROCESS macros for SPSS were used to examine the above associations. FINDINGS Better nurse practice environment, with the exception of 'staffing and resource adequacy' dimension, was directly associated with less experienced professional discrimination, and directly and indirectly associated with less silence about patient safety, through the mediating role of professional discrimination experienced by nurses. CONCLUSIONS Silence about patient safety is dependent on the clinical work environment and may be a response of nurses to discrimination in the work context. Both an improvement in the nurse work environment and a decrease in professional discrimination would minimize silence about patient safety. IMPACT On many occasions, nurses are directly or indirectly discouraged from voicing their concerns about patient safety or are ignored when they do, leading to employee silence and decreasing the standard of care (Alingh et al., BMJ Quality & Safety, 2019, 28, 39; Pope, Journal of Change Management, 2019, 19, 45). Nurses' work-related determinants for silence are not clearly understood in the patient safety context. A favourably evaluated nurse practice environment is associated with less experienced professional discrimination and less silence about patient safety. To minimize silence about patient safety, both the nurse work environment and the experienced professional discrimination should be taken into consideration by nurse and healthcare managers.
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- George Kritsotakis
- Department of Bussiness Administration & Tourism, Hellenic Mediterranean University, Crete, Greece.,School of Social Sciences, Hellenic Open University, Patras, Greece
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- School of Social Sciences, Hellenic Open University, Patras, Greece.,Faculty of Economics and Political Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thesaloniki, Greece
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- School of Social Sciences, Hellenic Open University, Patras, Greece.,Aghios Nikolaos General Hospital, Crete, Greece
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- School of Social Sciences, Hellenic Open University, Patras, Greece.,Department of Archives, Library Science and Museology, School of Information Science and Informatics, Ionian University, Kerkyra, Greece
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- Department of Social Work, Hellenic Mediterranean University, Crete, Greece
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Rodríguez-Gázquez MDLÁ, Basurto Hoyuelos S, González-López JR. Countries' cultures and professional nursing values: Cross-cultural evidence from Spanish and Colombian nursing students. Nurse Educ Pract 2020; 50:102953. [PMID: 33373879 DOI: 10.1016/j.nepr.2020.102953] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2020] [Revised: 10/20/2020] [Accepted: 12/12/2020] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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This study aimed to identify countries' cultural values associated with the importance given to certain professional nursing values by nursing students from Spain and Colombia. Weis and Schank's Nurses Professional Values Scale-Revised (NPVS-R) in its Spanish version and the Hofstede cultural classification were used for this purpose. The sample was composed of 880 nursing students. Nursing students from both countries showed a greater importance for professional nursing values compared to evidence from other countries. Significant differences were also found in the total score, dimensions, and items, always being higher for Colombian students. Based on regression results, the impact that the academic year had on the importance given to NPVS-R is non-linear (U-inverted). Both groups of students gave the highest importance to the same group of items. Those showing the largest difference in the rankings were associated with country culture differences based on the scores identified by Hofstede. Colombian and Spanish societies present similarities in Power Distance and Uncertainty Avoidance, as well as differences in the other cultural dimensions.
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- School of Nursing of Vitoria/Gasteiz, Spain. C/ Jose Atxotegi, s/n. 01009, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Álava, Spain.
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- Department of Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Physiotherapy and Podiatry, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain. C/ Avenzoar, n° 6, 41009, Seville, Spain.
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Syyrilä T, Vehviläinen-Julkunen K, Härkänen M. Communication issues contributing to medication incidents: Mixed-method analysis of hospitals' incident reports using indicator phrases based on literature. J Clin Nurs 2020; 29:2466-2481. [PMID: 32243030 DOI: 10.1111/jocn.15263] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2019] [Revised: 02/28/2020] [Accepted: 03/14/2020] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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AIM To identify the types and frequencies of communication issues (communication pairs, person related, institutional, structural, process and prescription-related issues) detected in medication incident reports and to compare communication issues that caused moderate or serious harm to patients. BACKGROUND Communication issues have been found to be among the main contributing factors of medication incidents, thus necessitating communication enhancement. DESIGN A sequential exploratory mixed-method design. METHODS Medication incident reports from Finland (n = 500) for the year 2015 in which communication was marked as a contributing factor were used as the data source. Indicator phrases were used for searching communication issues from free texts of incident reports. The detected issues were analysed statistically, qualitatively and considering the harm caused to the patient. Citations from free texts were extracted as evidence of issues and were classified following main categories of indicator phrases. The EQUATOR's SRQR checklist was followed in reporting. RESULTS Twenty-eight communication pairs were identified, with nurse-nurse (68.2%; n = 341), nurse-physician (41.6%; n = 208) and nurse-patient (9.6%; n = 48) pairs being the most frequent. Communication issues existed mostly within unit (76.6%, n = 383). The most commonly identified issues were digital communication (68.2%; n = 341), lack of communication within a team (39.6%; n = 198), false assumptions about work processes (25.6%; n = 128) and being unaware of guidelines (25.0%; n = 125). Collegial feedback and communication from patients and relatives were the preventing issues. Moderate harm cases were often linked with lack of communication within the unit, digital communication and not following guidelines. CONCLUSIONS The interventions should be prioritised to (a) enhancing communication about work-processes, (b) verbal communication about digital prescriptions between professionals, (c) feedback among professionals and (f) encouraging patients to communicate about medication. RELEVANCE TO CLINICAL PRACTICE Upon identifying the most harmful and frequent communication issues, interventions to strengthen medication safety can be implemented.
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- Tiina Syyrilä
- Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Eastern Finland (UEF), Kuopio, Finland.,Helsinki University Hospital (HUS), Helsinki, Finland
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Eastern Finland (UEF), Kuopio, Finland.,Kuopio University Hospital (KUH), Kuopio, Finland
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Eastern Finland (UEF), Kuopio, Finland
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