TY - GEN
T1 - Knowledge content of advance practice nurse and physician experts
T2 - 9th International Congress on Nursing Informatics, NI 2006
AU - Roberts, Wm Dan
AU - Patel, Vimla L.
AU - Stone, Patricia W.
AU - Bakken, Suzanne
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) are intended to provide evidence based knowledge for decision making for patient care. However, these guidelines have been poorly adopted by healthcare providers. One reason for this may be the static paper-based formats, isolated from the point of care. Biomedical informatics has provided a solution to this limitation through Computer Interpretable Guidelines (CIGs). An essential component of this process is CPG translation to a computer interpretable model. From the guideline modeling literature, the translators of CPGs typically are physicians. It is not known if other healthcare providers (i.e., Advance Practice Nurses [APNs]) comprehend CPGs similarly. This descriptive study utilized novice and expert APN and physician participants (varied by level of expertise) in a CPG comprehension task. Demographic data, verbal protocols, and recall model drawings were obtained and analyzed by description, protocol analysis, discourse analysis, and content analysis. The findings of this study indicate similar comprehension by the expert APNs and physicians suggesting that either type of expert may be utilized for modeling CPGs.
AB - Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) are intended to provide evidence based knowledge for decision making for patient care. However, these guidelines have been poorly adopted by healthcare providers. One reason for this may be the static paper-based formats, isolated from the point of care. Biomedical informatics has provided a solution to this limitation through Computer Interpretable Guidelines (CIGs). An essential component of this process is CPG translation to a computer interpretable model. From the guideline modeling literature, the translators of CPGs typically are physicians. It is not known if other healthcare providers (i.e., Advance Practice Nurses [APNs]) comprehend CPGs similarly. This descriptive study utilized novice and expert APN and physician participants (varied by level of expertise) in a CPG comprehension task. Demographic data, verbal protocols, and recall model drawings were obtained and analyzed by description, protocol analysis, discourse analysis, and content analysis. The findings of this study indicate similar comprehension by the expert APNs and physicians suggesting that either type of expert may be utilized for modeling CPGs.
KW - Advance Practice Nurse
KW - Clinical Practice Guideline
KW - Comprehension
KW - Content Analysis
KW - Protocol Analysis
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M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 17102303
AN - SCOPUS:39049185174
SN - 158603622X
SN - 9781586036225
T3 - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
SP - 476
EP - 480
BT - Consumer-Centered Computer-Supported Care for Healthy People - Proceedings of NI 2006
PB - IOS Press
Y2 - 9 June 2006 through 21 June 2006
ER -