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'Our Surgeons Want This to Be Short and Simple': Practices of In-Hospital Medication Review as Coordinated Sociomaterial Actions
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Reichenpfader, Ursula; Wickström, Anette; Abrandt Dahlgren, Madeleine; Nilsen, Per; Carlfjord, Siw – Studies in Continuing Education, 2018
Medication review, a systematic assessment of a patient's medicines by a health care professional, is intended to prevent medication-related harms. A critical element of medication review concerns whether medication review is conducted in a coordinated way. This article draws from a case example of implementing medication review in two surgical…
Descriptors: Patients, Drug Therapy, Health Personnel, Case Studies
Large-Scale Online Education Programmes and Their Potential to Effect Change in Behaviour and Practice of Health and Social Care Professionals: A Rapid Systematic Review
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Zubala, Ania; Lyszkiewicz, Kacper; Lee, Elaine; Underwood, Laura L.; Renfrew, Mary J.; Gray, Nicola M. – Interactive Learning Environments, 2019
This rapid systematic review examined the reported effects of large-scale online education on the behaviour and, ultimately, practice of health and social care professionals. Electronic databases of health and education literature were searched, 193 unique records were screened against inclusion and exclusion criteria, 31 papers were accessed for…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Behavior Change, Health Personnel, Social Work
Team Learning to Narrow the Gap between Healthcare Knowledge and Practice
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Anand, Tejwansh S. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This study explored team-based learning in teams of healthcare professionals working on making meaning of evidence-based clinical guidelines in their field to apply them within their practice setting. The research based team learning models posited by Kasl, Marsick, and Dechant (1997) and Edmondson, Dillon, and Roloff (2007) were used as the…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Pharmacy, Health Personnel, Physicians
User Interfaces for Patient-Centered Communication of Health Status and Care Progress
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Wilcox-Patterson, Lauren – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The recent trend toward patients participating in their own healthcare has opened up numerous opportunities for computing research. This dissertation focuses on how technology can foster this participation, through user interfaces to effectively communicate personal health status and care progress to hospital patients. I first characterize the…
Descriptors: Computer Interfaces, Patients, Health Services, Computer Mediated Communication
The Information Ecology of Personal Health Record Systems: Secure Messaging as Catalyst and Its Evolving Impact on Use and Consequences
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Nazi, Kim M. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Personal Health Records (PHRs) and PHR systems have been designed as consumer-oriented tools to empower patients and improve health care. Despite significant consumer interest and anticipated benefits, adoption remains low. Understanding the consumer perspective is necessary, but insufficient by itself. Consumer PHR use also has broad implications…
Descriptors: Medical Evaluation, Physicians, Nurses, Pharmacy
Knowledge Translation of Interprofessional Collaborative Patient-Centred Practice: The Working Together Project Experience
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MacDonald, Colla J.; Archibald, Douglas; Stodel, Emma; Chambers, Larry W.; Hall, Pippa – McGill Journal of Education, 2008
The Working Together (WT) project involved the design and delivery of an online learning resource for healthcare teams in long-term care (LTC) so that knowledge regarding interprofessional collaborative patient-centred practice (ICPCP) could be readily accessed and then transferred to the workplace. The purpose of this paper is to better…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Physicians, Nurses, Online Courses