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Table 5 Presentation of the overall theme, categories and sub-categories of the nurses’ reasoning and decision-making processes

From: Advancing beyond the system: telemedicine nurses’ clinical reasoning using a computerised decision support system for patients with COPD – an ethnographic study

Overall theme

Advancing beyond the system

Categories

The process of TM nurses’ reasoning to assess health change

The influence of the TM setting on nurses’ reasoning and decision-making processes

Sub-categories

Assessing the CDSS recommendations

Environment

 

Mapping, combining and interpreting data to reach a pre-decision

Technology

 

From pre-decision to shared decision-making

 
  1. CDSS computerised decision support system, TM telemedicine