Authors:
Márcia Baptista
1
;
Rita Silva
2
;
Helena Gonçalves Jardim
3
and
António Quintal
3
Affiliations:
1
Santiago Compostela University, Spain
;
2
SESARAM Hospital, Portugal
;
3
Madeira University, Portugal
Keyword(s):
Electronic Health Records, Perioperative System, Performance.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Biomedical Engineering
;
Electronic Health Records and Standards
;
Health Information Systems
;
Healthcare Management Systems
;
Pervasive Health Systems and Services
Abstract:
Nowadays, IT and informatics are permanently and highly integrated into the delivery of quality health care
and in the perioperative care is no exception. At Dr. Nélio Mendonça Hospital the implementation of a
perioperative electronic system was a major step. The purpose of this study was to contribute to the
perioperative nursing care improvement by recreating innovated nursing practices through the conception
and implementation of a perioperative electronic system. Before the perioperative electronic system
implementation in the OR only 1,2 % of the nurses registered the preoperative visit and after its
implementation 87,6 % of the nurses registered it. The patient features assessed exhibited inferior anxiety
levels (1st group: 13,72/ 2nd group: 10,97) and lower pain levels in the preoperative stage (1st group: 2,66/
2nd group: 1,19), intraoperative stage (1st group: 2,05/ 2nd group: 0,72) and postoperative stage (1st group:
4,5/ 2nd group: 0,45) after the implementation o
f the perioperative electronic system (p-value <0,05). The
results indicate that this system was beneficial to the nurses and to the surgery patients.
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