Impact of an electronic medication management system on hospital doctors' and nurses' work: a controlled pre-post, time and motion study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To quantify and compare the time doctors and nurses spent on direct patient care, medication-related tasks, and interactions before and after electronic medication management system (eMMS) introduction.

Methods

Controlled pre-post, time and motion study of 129 doctors and nurses for 633.2 h on four wards in a 400-bed hospital in Sydney, Australia. We measured changes in proportions of time on tasks and interactions by period, intervention/control group, and profession.

Results

eMMS was associated with no significant change in proportions of time spent on direct care or medication-related tasks relative to control wards. In the post-period control ward, doctors spent 19.7% (2 h/10 h shift) of their time on direct care and 7.4% (44.4 min/10 h shift) on medicat

SUBMITTER: Westbrook JI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3822109 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature