Decision Support Tools in Adult Long-term Care Facilities: Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Digital innovations are yet to make real impacts in the care home sector despite the considerable potential of digital health approaches to help with continued staff shortages and to improve quality of care. To understand the current landscape of digital innovation in long-term care facilities such as nursing and care homes, it is important to find out which clinical decision support tools are currently used in long-term care facilities, what their purpose is, how they were developed, and what types of data they use.

Objective

The aim of this review was to analyze studies that evaluated clinical decision support tools in long-term care facilities based on the purpose and intended users of the tools, the evidence base used to develop the tools, how the tools are us

SUBMITTER: Lapp L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9490521 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature