Home care nurses’ management of high-risk medications: a cross-sectional study

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Table 1 Description of participants’ characteristics (n = 2283)

Fig. 1 Readiness regarding high-risk medications care^a (%), (n = 2283). ^aThese 4 items were scored on a 5-point Likert scale with scores ranging from (1) “never” to (5) “always”. Scores (1) “never” and (2) “sometimes” were combined and scores (4) “mostly” and (5) “always were combined; HRM =  high-risk medications

Table 2 (Organizational) support, divided according to employment type (n = 2283)*

Table 3 Frequency of additional measures when dealing with high-risk medications (n = 2243)

Fig. 2 a Contact with high-risk medications (%). b Participant-rated risk of harm and severity of harm per high-risk medications (score out of 10). ¹High-Risk Medications from group 1 (n = 768); ²from group 2 (n = 748); ³from group 3 (n = 767); reported only by nurses who reported contacts with the high-risk medications

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