Documentation of Patient Problems and Strengths in Electronic Health Records

Documentation of Patient Problems and Strengths in Electronic Health Records

Background: A whole-person representation captures not only patient problems but also patient strengths. To better understand and inform practice of person-centered care and documentation using a whole-person representation, a critical review of literature was conducted of the current state of patient problems and strengths documentation in electronic health records. Methods: The informatics mo...

Electronic Health Records Documentation in Nursing

A descriptive study of 100 nursing personnel at a large Magnet hospital in Southwest Florida was conducted to assess their needs, preferences, and perceptions associated with Electronic Health Record (EHR) documentation methods. Nurses' attitudes about the use of EHRs and their perceived effects on patient care were assessed. The five-item, Likert-type attitude scale explained 54% of the varian...

Changing attitudes towards online electronic health records and online patient documentation in rheumatology outpatients.

OBJECTIVES The Internet supports interactive patient assessments, online documentation and access to online electronic health records (EHRs), but little is known about the acceptance of these features and trends in rheumatology patients. Therefore, we studied patients' attitudes and willingness to participate in online patient (self-)documentation. METHODS We interviewed 153 consecutive outpa...

Documentation of vital signs in electronic health records: issues for patient safety

Inadequate design and poor user-interface are given as reasons for unsuccessful implementation of electronic health records (EHR) [1,2]. However, rather than designing more suitable technology, the trend has been to 'muddle through' [2] and to urge health care workers to adapt to poorly designed systems [3]. This may work to some degree but little is known about the impact this could have on pa...

Patient Access to Electronic Health Records: Strengths, weaknesses and what’s needed to move forward