A qualitative exploration of the impact of a hospital electronic prescribing and medicines administration (HEPMA) protocol on junior doctor confidence and competence to prescribe end-of-life care medicines.

ABSTRACT:

Background

With hospital electronic prescribing and medicines administration (HEPMA) systems now in widespread use across hospital inpatient clinical services, work is underway to measure the benefits of HEPMA on healthcare systems and patient care. HEPMA functionality enables users to prescribe medicines by 'bundle' or 'protocol'. Although it is assumed that this is a significant system benefit, there are few qualitative studies supporting this conclusion.

Aim

To explore the impact of an electronic anticipatory care medicines protocol on junior doctor perceptions of their confidence and competence to prescribe opioids and midazolam for patients at the end of life.

Method

Between May and August 2022, one-to-one semi-structured interviews were conducted at a 570-bed Di

SUBMITTER: McLean E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11576621 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature