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Validation of a Nurses’ Views on Electronic Medical Record Systems (EMR) Questionnaire in Turkish Health System

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Using of EMR in health services and organizations is steadily increasing for quality improvement, cost effectiveness and performance development. However, no validated national and international instruments (scale, questionnaire, index, and inventory) have assessed the effectiveness, satisfaction, health care savings, patient safety and cost minimization of electronic medical and health systems from the viewpoint and perceptions of nurses in Turkish health services. The perceptions of health care professionals especially physicians and nurses can contribute important information that may predict their acceptance of EMR and desired mode of use for EMR, evaluation performance of EMR thus guiding EMR implementation in hospitals. This article is a report of validation of the instrument to measure nurses’ views on the use, quality and user satisfaction with EMR in Turkish health system. Items in the questionnaire were designed and obtained following O.G. Otieno, H. Toyama, M. Asonuma, M. Kanai-Pak, K. Naitoh’s questionnaire about Use, Quality and User Satisfaction with EMR systems. Reliability and validity were examined and investigated in terms of responses from 487 nurses from one education hospital in Ankara, Turkey. This study was planned and conducted at a university hospital. The validation process was based on construct validity in this study. The response rate was 74.92 %. Cronbach’s alphas of three factors (use, quality and satisfaction of EMR) ranged from 0.78 to 0.94. Goodness-of-fit indices from the confirmatory factor analysis showed a reasonable model fit. Results of confirmatory factor analysis showed that χ2 statistic indicated significant result (p < 0.001) and model fit was acceptable according to relative χ2 statistic (χ2/df = 2.8 < 5). Further validation of the instrument could yield positive results in health systems in the different countries. Also further validation and reliability studies could be planned on physicians and other health professionals.

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  1. Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Health Care Management, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

    Mehmet Top

  2. Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Health Care Management, Kırıkkalae University, Kırıkkale, Turkey

    Ali Yilmaz

  3. Faculty of Medicine, Department of biostatistics, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

    Erdem Karabulut

  4. School of Public Health, Department of Health Management and Informatics, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya

    Ochieng George Otieno

  5. Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

    Melahat Saylam & Sevgi Bakır

  6. Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Public Economics, Süleyman Demirel University, Isparta, Turkey

    Sümbül Top

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Top, M., Yilmaz, A., Karabulut, E. et al. Validation of a Nurses’ Views on Electronic Medical Record Systems (EMR) Questionnaire in Turkish Health System. J Med Syst 39, 67 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-015-0250-2

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