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Therapists’ experiences with implementing new documentation practices for low back pain in electronic health care records: an interview study

OBJECTIVE: Clinical practice is constantly changing with new guidelines being published, changes in patients’ preferences but also by new qualitative requirements for therapists and institutional surveys on delivered care. Electronic health records (EHR) are used for all these purposes. We involved...

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Autores principales: Toftdahl, Anne Katrine Skjølstrup, Ibsen, Stine, Pape-Haugaard, Louise Bilenberg, Riis, Allan
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10605498/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37885004
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-023-06567-w
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description OBJECTIVE: Clinical practice is constantly changing with new guidelines being published, changes in patients’ preferences but also by new qualitative requirements for therapists and institutional surveys on delivered care. Electronic health records (EHR) are used for all these purposes. We involved physiotherapists and occupational therapists in an intervention to change documentation practice in their electronic health record for low back pain (LBP) and later evaluated the feasibility of the new health records. The aim of the present study was to explore therapists’ experiences working with the new EHR. RESULTS: Three themes were identified thru interviews: (I) Facilitators and motivators towards implementation, (II) Changing routines as a group and (III) Obstacles against successful implementation. This study identifies a need for involving therapists and management for successful change of electronic health care records usage in municipalities. However, difficulties were encountered in meeting documentation of practice requirements and obtaining sufficient data quality in the EHR for data to be used for daily use, quality assessment and research. In this small descriptive study, developing an EHR that simultaneously serves treatment plans, quality assessment, and research purposes was not expressed being feasible. Further research in this area is needed. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13104-023-06567-w.
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spelling pubmed-106054982023-10-28 Therapists’ experiences with implementing new documentation practices for low back pain in electronic health care records: an interview study Toftdahl, Anne Katrine Skjølstrup Ibsen, Stine Pape-Haugaard, Louise Bilenberg Riis, Allan BMC Res Notes Research Note OBJECTIVE: Clinical practice is constantly changing with new guidelines being published, changes in patients’ preferences but also by new qualitative requirements for therapists and institutional surveys on delivered care. Electronic health records (EHR) are used for all these purposes. We involved physiotherapists and occupational therapists in an intervention to change documentation practice in their electronic health record for low back pain (LBP) and later evaluated the feasibility of the new health records. The aim of the present study was to explore therapists’ experiences working with the new EHR. RESULTS: Three themes were identified thru interviews: (I) Facilitators and motivators towards implementation, (II) Changing routines as a group and (III) Obstacles against successful implementation. This study identifies a need for involving therapists and management for successful change of electronic health care records usage in municipalities. However, difficulties were encountered in meeting documentation of practice requirements and obtaining sufficient data quality in the EHR for data to be used for daily use, quality assessment and research. In this small descriptive study, developing an EHR that simultaneously serves treatment plans, quality assessment, and research purposes was not expressed being feasible. Further research in this area is needed. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13104-023-06567-w. BioMed Central 2023-10-26 /pmc/articles/PMC10605498/ /pubmed/37885004 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-023-06567-w Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Ibsen, Stine
Pape-Haugaard, Louise Bilenberg
Riis, Allan
Therapists’ experiences with implementing new documentation practices for low back pain in electronic health care records: an interview study
title Therapists’ experiences with implementing new documentation practices for low back pain in electronic health care records: an interview study
title_full Therapists’ experiences with implementing new documentation practices for low back pain in electronic health care records: an interview study
title_fullStr Therapists’ experiences with implementing new documentation practices for low back pain in electronic health care records: an interview study
title_full_unstemmed Therapists’ experiences with implementing new documentation practices for low back pain in electronic health care records: an interview study
title_short Therapists’ experiences with implementing new documentation practices for low back pain in electronic health care records: an interview study
title_sort therapists’ experiences with implementing new documentation practices for low back pain in electronic health care records: an interview study
topic Research Note
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10605498/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37885004
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-023-06567-w
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