Proximity and information sharing in hospitals and nursing homes: Development of an instrument assessing health personnel's perceptions of proximity and information sharing with kitchen personnel.
J Interprof Care
; 37(6): 896-903, 2023 Nov 02.
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ABSTRACT
Healthcare services are becoming increasingly specialized, potentially hampering interprofessional care. To provide holistic treatment and care, different professions and departments need to share information. Healthcare services also include support services, such as institutional food services, and health personnel and kitchen personnel need to share information about food and patients to serve food adapted to the patients' nutritional needs. Healthcare institutions mainly use formal information-sharing systems, but informal communication is considered more suitable for exchanging complex information. Physical and social proximity may facilitate informal information sharing across different professions and units. We aimed to develop and test an instrument for assessing health personnel's perceptions of physical and social proximity to, and information-sharing practices with, kitchen personnel and to describe associations between physical and social proximity and information-sharing practices. A survey questionnaire measuring proximity and information-sharing practices was developed and distributed to 368 health personnel. Scale analyses were performed to test the psychometric properties of the measures included in the questionnaire. MANOVA and regression analyses were run to assess associations between proximity and information-sharing practices. The results indicated reasonable validity of the measures, and both physical and social proximity were associated with increased informal information sharing.
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Pessoal de Saúde
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Relações Interprofissionais
Tipo de estudo:
Qualitative_research
Limite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Interprof Care
Assunto da revista:
SERVICOS DE SAUDE
Ano de publicação:
2023
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Noruega