Table 5 Facilitators in using CDSS experienced by physicians and nurses
Original text fragment | Code |
|---|---|
Physicians | |
‘The patient has symptomatic COPD, and no information on pneumococcal vaccination was found. Consider vaccination…it’s nice that ‘someone’ has time to consider those…’ ‘It (CDSS) takes into account matters that I normally wouldn’t think about it…’ | beneficial reminders |
‘I very much enjoyed getting the GFR automatically…it makes me feel useless’ (laughing) | beneficial calculators |
’I found this tool (CMR) to be useful when I renewed the prescriptions for patient with polypharmacy’ | the burden of adverse effect caused by drugs |
‘As a consequence of a reminder for drug dosing in renal malfunction, I reduced the methotrexate dose, which I had forgotten’ | safety checks |
Nurses | |
‘I found the laboratory request reminders useful…’ | beneficial reminders |
‘It’s good that you see the date of the last measurement (in report)…’ | measurements in a single report |
‘It (CDSS) guided me to systematically check-up lab follow-up, the latest blood pressure measurements, the creatinine value and to update the medication…’ | guides to update medication and measurements |
‘Once when my doctor was away, I used the warfarin assistant to define the dosing’ | dosing assistant |