Measuring health professionals' perceptions of communication contributing to medication incidents in hospitals - scale development and primary results of weekly perceived communication challenges.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Communication challenges are one of the main contributors for medication incidents in hospitals, but health professionals' perceptions about variety of the contributing communication factors and the factors' occurrence frequencies are studied little. This cross-sectional descriptive study aimed to (1) operationalize a literature-based framework into a scale for measuring health professionals' perceptions of communication factors, which contribute to medication incidents either directly or indirectly in hospitals, (2) to measure the construct validity and internal consistency of the scale and (3) to describe the primary results of the measured weekly perceived communication challenges.

Methods

The structured online questionnaire with 82 communication related items

SUBMITTER: Syyrila T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10463788 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature