Documentation of hospitalization risk factors in electronic health records (EHRs): a qualitative study with home healthcare clinicians.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To identify the risk factors home healthcare (HHC) clinicians associate with patient deterioration and understand how clinicians respond to and document these risk factors.

Methods

We interviewed multidisciplinary HHC clinicians from January to March of 2021. Risk factors were mapped to standardized terminologies (eg, Omaha System). We used directed content analysis to identify risk factors for deterioration. We used inductive thematic analysis to understand HHC clinicians' response to risk factors and documentation of risk factors.

Results

Fifteen HHC clinicians identified a total of 79 risk factors that were mapped to standardized terminologies. HHC clinicians most frequently responded to risk factors by communicating with the prescribing provider (86.7% o

SUBMITTER: Hobensack M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9006696 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature