A Study of Clinicians' Information Systems Usage in Patient-centered Situations - Preliminary Results
Inger Dybdahl Sørby, Øystein Nytrø · Medinfo 2007: Proceedings of the 12th World Congress on Health (Medical) Informatics; Building Sustainable Health Systems · 2007
This paper presents preliminary results from an observational study performed at a Norwegian university hospital. The purpose of the study was to identify and capture clinicians' information and communication behaviour and also to further develop a method for performing structured observation of clinicians' patient-centered work. One fifth-year medical student spent 20 days in two different hospital wards, following 7 physicians from one to seven days each. The observer recorded data from several ward situations such as pre-rounds meetings, ward rounds, and discharge situations. The data was recorded by means of an observation form consisting of a mixture of codes and free-text fields.