Harnessing mobile devices to support the delivery of community-based clinical care: a participatory evaluation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A large provider of community health services (an NHS Trust in England) deployed Apple iPads to its front-line community-based healthcare clinicians (predominantly nurses) to enable them to increase responsiveness to patients' and their families' needs. We conducted a participatory formative evaluation of this iPad initiative among different users and the informatics teams implementing it, to establish how such initiatives can sustain adoption and achieve their stated benefits.

Methods

We used a participatory approach involving a partnership between study investigators and key decision-makers of the initiative to engage stakeholders in the study. Methods included focus groups and group discussion, meetings with key personnel and analysis of documents related to th

SUBMITTER: Harvey J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6636105 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature