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  • Staff perceptions of best practice for information transfer about multitrauma patients on discharge from the emergency department: a focus group study

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    Calleja, Pauline
    Aitken, Leanne
    Cooke, Marie
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    Cooke, Marie L.
    Year published
    2016
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    Aims and Objectives: To understand: (1) staff perceptions of best practice for information transfer for multitrauma patients on discharge from the emergency department; (2) what information should be conveyed at transfer and (3) how information is transferred. Background: Information transfer for multitrauma patients is an integral factor for continuity of care, safety, quality assurance and patient outcomes; however, this has not been the focus of previous studies. Design: This was a qualitative study using focus group interviews. Methods: Data were collected during focus group interviews across five clinical areas. ...
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    Aims and Objectives: To understand: (1) staff perceptions of best practice for information transfer for multitrauma patients on discharge from the emergency department; (2) what information should be conveyed at transfer and (3) how information is transferred. Background: Information transfer for multitrauma patients is an integral factor for continuity of care, safety, quality assurance and patient outcomes; however, this has not been the focus of previous studies. Design: This was a qualitative study using focus group interviews. Methods: Data were collected during focus group interviews across five clinical areas. Themes were derived from the data with consensus from three data coders. Purposive sampling was used and included staff caring for trauma patients during patient transition out of the emergency department. Participants were representatives of the emergency department, perioperative care, intensive care unit, high dependency care unit and the trauma service unit. Twenty-six registered nurses and two medical officers participated. Results: Five focus group interviews were held. Themes emerged from the data including ‘Variability’, ‘Continuity’ and ‘Putting the pieces together’. The first three themes were all influenced by the fourth theme of ‘Values/Context’. Considered together these themes influenced staff perception of the quality of information transfer for multitrauma patients on discharge from the emergency department. Conclusions: Staff perceived best practice for information transfer to be clear, concise, relevant documentation that travelled with the patient and interactive communication at handover that adhered to agreed principles and a minimum data set specific to trauma patients.
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    Journal Title
    Journal of Clinical Nursing
    Volume
    25
    Publisher URI
    http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jocn.13334/full
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.13334
    Copyright Statement
    © 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Staff perceptions of best practice for information transfer about multitrauma patients on discharge from the emergency department: a focus group study, Journal of Clinical Nursing, Volume 25, Issue 19-20, October 2016, Pages 2863–2873, which has been published in final form at 10.1111/jocn.13334. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving (http://olabout.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-828039.html)
    Subject
    Nursing
    Nursing not elsewhere classified
    Health services and systems
    Public health
    Psychology
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/100483
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