Improving situation awareness to advance patient outcomes: a systematic literature review.

Yaser Alqarrain; Abdul Roudsari; Karen L Courtney; Jim Tanaka

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Improving situation awareness to advance patient outcomes: a systematic literature review.

March 6, 2024

Alqarrain Y, Roudsari A, Courtney KL, et al. Comput Inform Nurs. 2024;Epub Feb 20.

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Situational awareness is the ability to perceive, understand, and respond to a situation. This systematic review identified nine studies aimed at improving nurses' situational awareness and, therefore, patient safety. Intervention types included electronic health record (EHR) dashboards, communication, and structured nursing assessments. The evidence that EHR dashboards improve situational awareness was weak, and future research should utilize a situational awareness model in development of dashboards.

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