From: Quality of outpatient clinical notes: a stakeholder definition derived through qualitative research
Characteristics | Clinician group | Nurse/Ancillary group | Patient group | Administrator group |
---|---|---|---|---|
Number = 163 | 61 | 52 | 31 | 19 |
Disciplines/fields represented | Physicians | Cert. nurse specialists | Patients | Quality assurance specialists |
Nurse practitioners | Nurses | Caregivers | Special needs coordinators | |
Physician | Medical technologists | Â | Patient advocates | |
Assistants | Physical therapists | Â | Patient safety managers | |
Dentists | Social workers | Â | Medical coders | |
Psychologists | Pharmacists | Â | Group practice managers | |
Optometrists | Medical assistants | Â | Medical records technicians | |
 | Case managers |  | Patient administrators | |
 | Dental assistants |  |  | |
 | Hospital Corpsman |  |  | |
Gender | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Female | 29 (47.5%) | 39 (75.0%) | 20 (64.5%) | 13 (68.4%) |
Male | 30 (49.2%) | 11 (21.2%) | 11 (35.5%) | 6 (31.6%) |
Not reported | 2 (3.5%) | 2 (3.8%) | 0 | 0 |
Age (in years) | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Mean | 41.6 | 42.1 | 51 | 41.8 |
Maximum | 72 | 62 | 83 | 61 |
Minimum | 26 | 21 | 25 | 26 |
# participants not reporting | 1 | 3 | 9 | 0 |
Race/ethnicity | Â | Â | Â | Â |
African American | 2 (3.3%) | 18 (34.6%) | 8 (25.8%) | 10 (52.6%) |
Asian Pacific | 7 (11.5%) | 3 (5.8%) | 0 | 0 |
Hispanic | 3 (5.0%) | 2 (3.8%) | 3 (9.7%) | 4 (21.1%) |
Caucasian | 48 (78.7%) | 28 (53.8%) | 20 (64.5%) | 5 (26.3%) |
# participants not reporting | 1 (1.6%) | 1 (1.9%) | 0 | 0 |
Data collected between | May 2009 –December 2009 | June 2009 –December 2009 | July 2009 –October 2011 | May 2009 –December 2009 |