Understanding medication safety involving patient transfer from intensive care to hospital ward: a qualitative sociotechnical factor study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To understand the sociotechnical factors affecting medication safety when intensive care patients are transferred to a hospital ward. Consideration of these medication safety factors would provide a theoretical basis, on which future interventions can be developed and evaluated to improve patient care.

Design

Qualitative study using semistructured interviews of intensive care and hospital ward-based healthcare professionals. Transcripts were anonymised prior to thematic analysis using the London Protocol and Systems Engineering in Patient Safety V.3.0 model frameworks.

Setting

Four north of England National Health Service hospitals. All hospitals used electronic prescribing in intensive care and hospital ward settings.

Participants

Intensive care and

SUBMITTER: Bourne RS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10163459 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature