Barriers to body temperature monitoring among prehospital personnel: a qualitative study using the modified nominal group technique
Objectives To identify and explore barriers that healthcare professionals working as prehospital care (PHC) providers at the University Hospital of North Norway experience with temperature monitoring and discover solutions to these problems. Study design Qualitative study using the modified nominal...
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crjcrbmj:10.1136/bmjopen-2021-058910 2023-05-15T17:39:23+02:00 Barriers to body temperature monitoring among prehospital personnel: a qualitative study using the modified nominal group technique Scott, Remi William Fredriksen, Knut Universitetet i Tromsø 2022 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-058910 https://syndication.highwire.org/content/doi/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-058910 en eng BMJ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ CC-BY-NC BMJ Open volume 12, issue 6, page e058910 ISSN 2044-6055 2044-6055 General Medicine journal-article 2022 crjcrbmj https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-058910 2022-07-01T09:41:34Z Objectives To identify and explore barriers that healthcare professionals working as prehospital care (PHC) providers at the University Hospital of North Norway experience with temperature monitoring and discover solutions to these problems. Study design Qualitative study using the modified nominal group technique. Materials and methods 14 experienced healthcare professionals working in air and ground emergency medical services were invited to the study. Initially, each participant was asked to suggest through email topics of importance regarding barriers to prehospital thermometry. Afterwards, they received a list of all disparate topics and were asked to individually rank them by importance. The top-ranked topics were discussed in a consensus meeting. The meeting was audio-recorded and a transcript was written and then analysed through an inductive thematic analysis. Results 13 participants accepted the invitation. 63 suggestions were reduced to 24 disparate topics after removal of duplicates. Twelve highly ranked topics were discussed during the consensus meeting. Thematic analysis revealed 47 codes that were grouped together into six overarching themes, of which four described challenges to monitoring and two described potential solutions: equipment dissatisfaction, little focus on patient temperature, fear of iatrogenic complications, thermometry subordinated, more focus on temperature and simplification of thermometry. Conclusion To increase the frequency of temperature measurement on correct indication, we suggest introducing PHC protocols that specify patients and conditions where an accurate temperature measurement should have high priority. Furthermore, there is a profound need for more suitable techniques for temperature monitoring in the prehospital setting. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Norway The BMJ (via Crossref) Norway BMJ Open 12 6 e058910 |
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Objectives To identify and explore barriers that healthcare professionals working as prehospital care (PHC) providers at the University Hospital of North Norway experience with temperature monitoring and discover solutions to these problems. Study design Qualitative study using the modified nominal group technique. Materials and methods 14 experienced healthcare professionals working in air and ground emergency medical services were invited to the study. Initially, each participant was asked to suggest through email topics of importance regarding barriers to prehospital thermometry. Afterwards, they received a list of all disparate topics and were asked to individually rank them by importance. The top-ranked topics were discussed in a consensus meeting. The meeting was audio-recorded and a transcript was written and then analysed through an inductive thematic analysis. Results 13 participants accepted the invitation. 63 suggestions were reduced to 24 disparate topics after removal of duplicates. Twelve highly ranked topics were discussed during the consensus meeting. Thematic analysis revealed 47 codes that were grouped together into six overarching themes, of which four described challenges to monitoring and two described potential solutions: equipment dissatisfaction, little focus on patient temperature, fear of iatrogenic complications, thermometry subordinated, more focus on temperature and simplification of thermometry. Conclusion To increase the frequency of temperature measurement on correct indication, we suggest introducing PHC protocols that specify patients and conditions where an accurate temperature measurement should have high priority. Furthermore, there is a profound need for more suitable techniques for temperature monitoring in the prehospital setting. |
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Barriers to body temperature monitoring among prehospital personnel: a qualitative study using the modified nominal group technique |
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