Publications by authors named "Sascha Rixon"
Objectives: To explore communication between patients, families, and health professionals about managing medications in intensive care.
Design: A qualitative exploratory study was undertaken using participant observations. A thematic analysis of the data was performed.
Background: Nursing handovers are an important component of patient safety and quality in communicating across transitions of care.
Objectives: To determine the functions and roles of questions in nursing handovers, and of how questions contribute to handover quality improvement in specialty settings of an Australian tertiary hospital.
Design: An ethnographic research design was employed.
The objective of this review is to evaluate the effectiveness of educational communication interventions for health professionals in emergency departments. The end result is to identify the specific types of communication based educational strategies utilized by emergency department health care professionals to enhance the quality of care for patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The objective of the present study is to develop and pilot a communication and influencing skills training programme that meets ED health professionals' needs at an urban district hospital.
Methods: Qualitative methods within a participatory action research framework were utilised. An interdisciplinary team guided the programme's design and development.
Aims And Objectives: To investigate what and how medication information is communicated during handover interactions in specialty hospital settings.
Background: Effective communication about patients' medications between health professionals and nurses at handover is vital for the delivery of safe continuity of care.
Design: An exploratory qualitative design and observational study.
Effective communication between pharmacists, doctors, and nurses about patients' medications is particularly important in specialty hospital settings where high-risk medications are frequently used. This article describes the nature of communication about medications that occurs between pharmacists and other health professionals, including doctors and nurses, in specialty hospital settings. Semistructured interviews with, and participant observations of, pharmacists, nurses, and doctors were conducted in specialty settings of an Australian public, metropolitan teaching hospital.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Communication problems contribute enormously to medication errors and adverse events. Encouraging patient engagement can help to facilitate effective medication management.
Objectives: To examine barriers and enablers affecting how patients engage with managing their medications in specialty hospital settings.
Objective: To measure the rate of medication incidents associated with the prescription and administration of high-alert medications and to identify patient-, environment- and medication-related factors associated with these incidents.
Design: A retrospective chart audit design was conducted of medical records for patient admissions from 1 January 2010 to 31 December 2010.
Setting: Five practice settings (cardiac care, emergency care, intensive care, oncology care and perioperative care) at a public teaching hospital in Melbourne, Australia.