Tools supporting polypharmacy management in Italy: Factors determining digital technologies' intention to use in clinical practice.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

INTERCheckWEB is one of the most outstanding digital technologies, that could be implemented at the hospital level, supporting the clinicians in the evaluation of the therapy appropriateness, reducing the potentially inappropriate prescriptions, for the improvement of the clinical decision-making process. The paper aims at investigating the relationship between clinicians' behaviors towards digital decision support system in therapy appropriateness for elderly patients in polytherapy in medical departments, defining the factors that could influence clinicians to use INTERCheckWEB, for supporting drugs' prescription.

Methods

A questionnaire was administered to 70 clinicians referring to Internal Medicine wards, of four Italian hospitals. The authors assess

SUBMITTER: Catrini E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9117970 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature