Healthcare professionals' perceptions on medication communication challenges and solutions - text mining and manual content analysis - cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Communication challenges contribute to medication incidents in hospitals, but it is unclear how communication can be improved. The aims of this study were threefold: firstly, to describe the most common communication challenges related to medication incidents as perceived by healthcare professionals across specialized hospitals for adult patients; secondly, to consider suggestions from healthcare professionals with regard to improving medication communication; and thirdly, to explore how text mining compares to manual analysis when analyzing the free-text content of survey data.

Methods

This was a cross-sectional, descriptive study. A digital survey was sent to professionals in two university hospital districts in Finland from November 1, 2019, to January 31, 2020

SUBMITTER: Syyrila T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8590289 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature