Measuring the effectiveness of digital nursing technologies: development of a comprehensive digital nursing technology outcome framework based on a scoping review

Table 1 Framework with overall results

Person in need of care	N	Formal Caregiver	N	Informal Caregiver	N	Healthcare Organisation	N
Functional Health	16	(Job) Satisfaction	3	(Life) Satisfaction	2	Care Process Quality	21
Physiological Health	11	Medical Health condition	0	Medical Health Condition	0	Access to Care	1
Psychosocial health	33	Psychosocial health	0	Psychosocial Health	4	Communication/Social Interaction	15
Social Condition	7	Professional Knowledge and Competences	2	Social Condition	3	Recruitment and Staffing	0
Health Behaviour	5	Physical/ Psychological Workload	6	Living Conditions	2	Working Conditions	1
Health Knowledge & Attitudes	3	Relationship to Person in Need of Care	7	Knowledge and Competences	0	Operational Efficiency	21
Patient Safety	11			Compliance	0	Financial Performance	4
				Physical/ Psychological Workload	2
				Use of caregiving support	0
Overarching Concepts		Overarching Concepts		Overarching Concepts		Overarching Concepts
Well-being/ Quality of Life	17	Well-being/ Quality of Life	0			Hospital/Nursing Home Quality	4
Health-related QOL	13	Health-related QOL	0	Well-being/ Quality of Life	2
Needs Assessment/ Fulfilled Needs	3	Caregiver Burden	0	Health-related QOL	0
				Caregiver Burden	7
Organisational		Organisational
Intensity of Service Utilization	19	Employee Satisfaction	0
Organisational Patient Safety Indicators	18	Professional Guideline Compliance	7
Patient Satisfaction	6	Impact on Workload	2
Intersectoral Continuity of Care	1
Total number of studies*	77		20		10		45

*the total number of studies is lower than the amount (n) of the outcome areas from the above table, as single studies contain aspects from multiple outcome areas

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