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Information Management in the Daily Care Coordination in the Intensive Care Unit

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Building Sustainable Health Ecosystems (WIS 2016)

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This study aimed to explore intensive care shift leaders’ daily care coordination related information needs and sources of important information. Information needs were explored with a survey and sources of important information were determined through interviews. The survey response rate was 21 % (n = 20) and nine shift leaders were interviewed. The findings are that charge nurses and physicians in charge have different responsibilities and differing information needs, though, some managerial activities and information needs are shared. Shift leaders use numerous sources to obtain necessary information to support decision-making. Sources were categorized into electronic sources, human sources, manual sources and real-time events. Further, information was located within or outside the ICU or based on the shift leader’s knowledge. Information systems should be developed based on shift leaders’ information needs regardless of the source to support daily care coordination related decision-making. Shift leaders could further benefit from a real-time hospital-wide shared situational awareness.

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This study was supported by The Finnish Work Environment Fund [grant number 114249].

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  1. Nursing Science, University of Turku, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland

    Laura-Maria Peltonen & Sanna Salanterä

  2. Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland

    Heljä Lundgrén-Laine

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  1. University of Turku, Turku, Finland

    Hongxiu Li

  2. University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland

    Pirkko Nykänen

  3. University of Turku, Turku, Finland

    Reima Suomi

  4. Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia

    Nilmini Wickramasinghe

  5. Åbo Academi University, Turku, Finland

    Gunilla Widén

  6. Åbo Academi University, Turku, Finland

    Ming Zhan

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Peltonen, LM., Lundgrén-Laine, H., Salanterä, S. (2016). Information Management in the Daily Care Coordination in the Intensive Care Unit. In: Li, H., Nykänen, P., Suomi, R., Wickramasinghe, N., Widén, G., Zhan, M. (eds) Building Sustainable Health Ecosystems. WIS 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 636. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44672-1_19

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