Healthcare Professionals' Perspectives on Improving Dietary Supplement Documentation in the Electronic Medical Record: Current Challenges and Opportunities to Enhance Quality of Care and Patient Safety.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Around half the US population uses dietary supplements (DS), and concomitant use with medications is common. Many DS include bioactive substances that can interact with medications; therefore, accurate tracking is critical for patient safety. Unfortunately, documentation of patients' DS use is often missing or incomplete in the electronic medical record (EMR), leaving patients susceptible to potential adverse events. Novel approaches to assist healthcare professionals (HCPs) in capturing patients' DS use are needed.

Objective

To assess HCPs' perspectives on challenges and facilitators of DS documentation in the EMR and their opinions on a proposed mHealth application (app) to aid in DS capture.

Methods

HCPs, recruited from professional networks, largely in

SUBMITTER: Kadro ZO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10734342 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature