title: Enhancing Patient Safety Using Clinical Nursing Data: A Pilot Study.
abstract: To enhance patient safety from falls, many hospital information systems have been implemented to collect clinical data from the bedside and have used the information to improve fall prevention care. However, most of them use administrative data not clinical nursing data. This necessitated the development of a web-based Nursing Practice and Research Information Management System (NPRIMS) that processes clinical nursing data to measure nurses' delivery of fall prevention care and its impact on patient outcomes. This pilot study developed computer algorithms based on a falls prevention protocol and programmed the prototype NPRIMS. It successfully measured the performance of nursing care delivered and its impact on patient outcomes using clinical nursing data from the study site. Results of the study revealed that NPRIMS has the potential to pinpoint components of nursing processes that are in need of improvement for preventing patient from falls.
authors.affiliation: Collge of Nursing, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
authors.forename: Jeeyae
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Choi
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA.
authors.forename: Jeungok E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Choi
mesh_terms: D000058:Accidental Falls / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015400:Clinical Nursing Research / Q000458:organization & administration; D057286:Electronic Health Records / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D019451:Information Management / Q000458:organization & administration; D020407:Internet / Q000458:organization & administration; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000592:standards*; D048108:Nursing Informatics / Q000592:standards*; D009737:Nursing Records / Q000592:standards*; D061214:Patient Safety / Q000592:standards*; D010865:Pilot Projects; D058996:Quality Improvement / Q000458:organization & administration; D014481:United States