Identifying barriers and facilitators to recognition and response to patient clinical deterioration by clinicians using a behaviour change approach: A qualitative study.
clinical decision-making
organisational behaviour
patient safety
policy
qualitative study
Journal
Journal of clinical nursing
ISSN: 1365-2702
Titre abrégé: J Clin Nurs
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9207302
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Mar 2021
Mar 2021
Historique:
revised:
03
12
2020
received:
07
10
2020
accepted:
10
12
2020
pubmed:
23
12
2020
medline:
2
7
2021
entrez:
22
12
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Failure of clinicians to recognise and respond to patient clinical deterioration is associated with increased hospital mortality. Emergency response teams are implemented throughout hospitals to support direct-care clinicians in managing patient deterioration, but patient clinical deterioration is often not identified or acted upon by clinicians in ward settings. To date, no studies have used an integrative theoretical framework in multiple sites to examine why clinicians' delay identification and action on patients' clinical deterioration. To identify barriers and facilitators that influence clinicians' absent or delayed response to patient clinical deterioration using the Theoretical Domains Framework. The Theoretical Domains Framework guided: (a) semi-structured interviews with clinicians, health consumers and family members undertaken at two sites; (b) deductive analyses of inductive themes to identify barriers and facilitators to optimal care. This study complied with the COREQ research guidelines. Seven themes identified: (a) information transfer; (b) ownership of patient care; (c) confidence to respond; (d) knowledge and skills; (e) culture; (f) emotion; and (g) environmental context and resources. The Theoretical Domains Framework identified traditional social and professional hierarchies and limitations due to environmental contexts and resources as contributors to diminished interprofessional recognition and impediments to the development of effective relationships between professional groups. Communication processes were impacted by these restraints and further confounded by inadequate policy development and limited access to regular effective team-based training. As a result, patient safety was compromised, and clinicians frustrated. These results inform the development, implementation and evaluation of a behaviour change intervention and increase knowledge about barriers and facilitators to timely response to patient clinical deterioration. Results contribute to understanding of why clinicians delay responding to patient clinical deterioration and suggest key recommendations to identify and challenge traditional hierarchies and practices that prevent interdisciplinary collaboration and decision-making.
Sections du résumé
BACKGROUND
BACKGROUND
Failure of clinicians to recognise and respond to patient clinical deterioration is associated with increased hospital mortality. Emergency response teams are implemented throughout hospitals to support direct-care clinicians in managing patient deterioration, but patient clinical deterioration is often not identified or acted upon by clinicians in ward settings. To date, no studies have used an integrative theoretical framework in multiple sites to examine why clinicians' delay identification and action on patients' clinical deterioration.
AIM
OBJECTIVE
To identify barriers and facilitators that influence clinicians' absent or delayed response to patient clinical deterioration using the Theoretical Domains Framework.
METHODS
METHODS
The Theoretical Domains Framework guided: (a) semi-structured interviews with clinicians, health consumers and family members undertaken at two sites; (b) deductive analyses of inductive themes to identify barriers and facilitators to optimal care. This study complied with the COREQ research guidelines.
FINDINGS
RESULTS
Seven themes identified: (a) information transfer; (b) ownership of patient care; (c) confidence to respond; (d) knowledge and skills; (e) culture; (f) emotion; and (g) environmental context and resources.
DISCUSSION
CONCLUSIONS
The Theoretical Domains Framework identified traditional social and professional hierarchies and limitations due to environmental contexts and resources as contributors to diminished interprofessional recognition and impediments to the development of effective relationships between professional groups. Communication processes were impacted by these restraints and further confounded by inadequate policy development and limited access to regular effective team-based training. As a result, patient safety was compromised, and clinicians frustrated.
CONCLUSIONS
CONCLUSIONS
These results inform the development, implementation and evaluation of a behaviour change intervention and increase knowledge about barriers and facilitators to timely response to patient clinical deterioration.
RELEVANCE TO CLINICAL PRACTICE
CONCLUSIONS
Results contribute to understanding of why clinicians delay responding to patient clinical deterioration and suggest key recommendations to identify and challenge traditional hierarchies and practices that prevent interdisciplinary collaboration and decision-making.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
803-818Subventions
Organisme : Queensland Government
Organisme : Griffith University
Informations de copyright
© 2020 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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