Patient and nurse preferences for implementation of bedside handover: Do they agree? Findings from a discrete choice experiment.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe and compare patients' and nurses' preferences for the implementation of bedside handover.

Design

Discrete choice experiment describing handover choices using six characteristics: whether the patient is invited to participate; whether a family member/carer/friend is invited; the number of nurses present; the level of patient involvement; the information content; and privacy.

Setting

Two Australian hospitals.

Participants

Adult patients (n=401) and nurses (n=200) recruited from medical wards.

Main outcome measures

Mean importance scores for handover characteristics estimated using mixed multinomial logit regression of the choice data.

Results

Both patient and nurse participants preferred handover at the bedside rather than else

SUBMITTER: Whitty JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5512991 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature