Readiness to prescribe: Using educational design to untie the Gordian Knot.

ABSTRACT: INTRODUCTION:Junior residents routinely prescribe medications for hospitalised patients with only arms-length supervision, which compromises patient safety. A cardinal example is insulin prescribing, which is commonplace, routinely delegated to very junior doctors, difficult, potentially very dangerous, and getting no better. Our aim was to operationalise the concept of 'readiness to prescribe' by validating an instrument to quality-improve residents' workplace prescribing education. METHODS:Guided by theories of behaviour change, implementation, and error, and by empirical evidence, we developed and refined a mixed-methods 24-item evaluation instrument, and analysed numerical responses from Foundation Trainees (junior residents) in Northern Ireland, UK using principal axis factoring, and

SUBMITTER: Lee C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6980548 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature