Understanding the utilisation of a novel interactive electronic medication safety dashboard in general practice: a mixed methods study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Improving medication safety is a major concern in primary care settings worldwide. The Salford Medication safety dASHboard (SMASH) intervention provided general practices in Salford (Greater Manchester, UK) with feedback on their safe prescribing and monitoring of medications through an online dashboard, and input from practice-based trained clinical pharmacists. In this study we explored how staff working in general practices used the SMASH dashboard to improve medication safety, through interactions with the dashboard to identify potential medication safety hazards and their workflow to resolve identified hazards.

Methods

We used a mixed-methods study design involving quantitative data from dashboard user interaction logs from 43 general practices during the fir

SUBMITTER: Jeffries M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7164282 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature