How does feedback shared with interprofessional health care teams shape nursing performance improvement systems? A rapid realist review protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Nursing care quality varies between hospitals, and even between departments within the same institution. Suboptimal care can have deleterious consequences for patients such as lengthened hospital stay, nosocomial infection, pressure ulcers or death. Experts recommend the implementation of nursing performance improvement systems to assess team performance and monitor patient outcomes and efficiency savings. In practice, these systems are expected to include feedback processes directed towards nursing teams and interprofessional staff in order to facilitate adjustments and improve their performance. Unfortunately, feedback appears somewhat haphazard and, at times, overlooked. This could be explained by an ongoing absence of clear recommendations. As a result, feedback effe

SUBMITTER: Rapin J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6647156 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature