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Best Practices and Lessons Learned in Health Information System Collaboration: A research example

Elke Ham Krystle Martin

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Our research study

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• Psychotropic PRN medication administration

for anxiety

• Used chart reviews, plus interviews with

patients and staff

• Collected data from OS & Waypoint
• Non-pharmacological interventions, types of

interventions, and barriers to using these strategies

What the data looked like:

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• Ontario Shores
• Waypoint

Differences between data collection due to type of HIS:

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• Time
• Legibility
• Completeness
• Accuracy

Variable EHR (%) Paper charts (%) Mention of PRN in nursing note 92 91 Detailed reason for PRN administration provided 77 76 Mention of who initiated the PRN administration 82 76 Mention of non-pharmacological intervention(s) attempted 32 20 Effectiveness of PRN medication 100 11

Recommendations and opportunities:

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• Other examples: Dual Diagnosis unit process
• New PRN changes for OS & Waypoint
• Templates
• Prompting
• Nursing practice education/support
• Opportunities for research

Questions? Comments?

Thank you!