Understanding uptake of information about innovations among emergency department clinicians during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, little was known about managing sick patients, but emergency department (ED) clinicians had to decide which treatments and care processes to adopt. Our objective was to describe how ED clinicians learned about innovations and how they assessed them for credibility during the pandemic.

Methods

We purposively sampled clinicians from hospital-based EDs to conduct focus groups with ED clinicians and staff. We used both inductive and deductive approaches to conduct thematic analysis of transcripts.

Results

We conducted focus groups with clinicians from eight EDs across the United States. We found that ED clinicians in our sample relied on friends and colleagues or departmental and institutional leadership for information on innova

SUBMITTER: Qureshi N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11259543 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature