Challenges using electronic nursing routine data for outcome analyses: A mixed methods study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To explore the challenges of secondary use of routinely collected data for analyzing nursing-sensitive outcomes in Austrian acute care hospitals.

Method

A convergent parallel mixed methods design was performed. We conducted a quantitative representative survey with nursing managers from 32 Austrian general acute care hospitals and 11 qualitative semi-structured interviews with nursing quality management experts. Both results were first analyzed independently and afterward merged in the discussion.

Results

On average, 76% of nursing documentation is already electronically supported in the surveyed Austrian hospitals. However, existing nursing data is seldom used for secondary purposes such as nursing-sensitive outcome analyses. This is due to four major reas

SUBMITTER: Nantschev R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8766780 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature