Health professionals’ experience and perceived obstacles with managing patients’ medication information in Norway: cross-sectional survey

Table 4 Reported obstacles in transferring patients’ medication information

Category	Respondents, n (%)
Category	Doctors	Nurses
Patient groups
Multidose dispensing patients	55 (35.3)	6 (7.4)
Patients with cognitive impairments	10 (6.4)	6 (7.4)
Home-dwelling elderly	14 (9.0)	2 (2.5)
Patients with acute illnesses	11 (7.1)	5 (6.2)
Patient with self-management difficulties^a	18 (11.5)	2 (2.5)
Child and adolescent patients	3 (1.9)	1 (1.2)
Medication management
Slow/inaccurate update of medication list	23 (14.7)	16 (19.8)
Errors/omissions in discharge summary	16 (10.3)	12 (14.8)
Technical difficulties	7 (4.5)	NA
Fail in communication	NA	3 (3.7)
Transition of care
Vertical care^b	43 (27.6)	26 (32.1)
Horizontal care^c	14 (9.0)	3 (3.7)

Total number of obstacles by type (doctor n = 214, nurse n = 82) exceed total number of respondents reporting obstacles (doctor n = 156, nurse n = 81) because some respondents reported more than one type of obstacle. Frequencies were calculated using 156 (doctor) and 81 (nurse) as a denominator
^aPatients who struggle to remember or understand their medication lists
^bTransition of care between different levels of healthcare
^cTransition of care within the same level of care but across different locations or healthcare settings

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