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Healthcare organisations monitor patient experiences in order to evaluate a=
nd improve the quality of care. Because nurses spend a lot of time with pat=
ients, they have a major impact on patient experiences. To improve patient =
experiences of the quality of care, nurses need to know what factors within=
 the nursing work environment are of influence. The main focus of this rese=
arch was to comprehend the views of Dutch nurses on how their work and thei=
r work environment contribute to positive patient experiences.

The nurses mentioned essential elements that they believe would improve pat=
ient experiences of the quality of nursing care: clinically competent nurse=
s, collaborative working relationships, autonomous nursing practice, adequa=
te staffing, control over nursing practice, managerial support and patient-=
centred culture. They also mentioned several inhibiting factors, such as co=
st-effectiveness policy and transparency goals for external accountability.=
 Nurses feel pressured to increase productivity and report a high administr=
ative workload. They stated that these factors will not improve patient exp=
eriences of the quality of nursing care.

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Participants formulated several facilitating elements that they consider fu=
ndamental to improving patient experiences of the quality of care. They als=
o mentioned such inhibiting factors as cost-effectiveness and transparency =
and accountability goals. These factors prevent them from improving patient=
 experiences (Table 3).

In addition to substantive expertise, participants stated that nursing expe=
rience is also of influence. According to them, a junior nurse has too litt=
le experience to respond creatively to sometimes complex care situations. H=
owever, according to participants, junior and senior nurses can learn from =
each other: they should work as a team and collectively pursue their common=
 objectives. In their view, experience is gained through practice. Accordin=
g to participants, this can be characterised as 'expertise'.

According to participants, it is important to develop and maintain collabor=
ative working relationships with professionals, including those in their ow=
n field. In the view of participants, collaborative working relationships e=
xist when all the involved professionals interact and operate in a compleme=
ntary manner, and show mutual respect that is based on knowledge and expert=
ise. Participants stated that all professionals need to discuss and influen=
ce patient care on the basis of their own expertise. Participants believe t=
hat problems will be solved sooner when ideas and thoughts are exchanged. I=
n their view, it is about sharing information and communication. As stated =
by participants, communication and aligning with each other is needed so th=
at no conflicting information is given and uniformity in care or treatment =
is provided. This generates, according to the participants, composure and c=
larity towards patients.

Participants in all four focus groups stated that the scope of practice for=
 which they are accountable influences patient experiences. The scope of pr=
actice, according to them, means that nurses can control their own work rel=
ated to patient care and can make independent decisions about patient outco=
mes based on clinical judgements. Participants therefore believe it is esse=
ntial to monitor and measure outcomes, as long as the monitoring is directl=
y related to patient care. However, participants indicated that they did no=
t have insight into care results obtained from assessments.

Participants stated that the number of nurses available influences how pati=
ents experience the quality of care. Although they could not indicate what =
number they consider sufficient, they think that a sufficient nurse staffin=
g level is linked to team composition or staff mix. For instance, participa=
nts indicated the proportion of registered nurses to student nurses, or the=
 number of different nurse qualification levels in one team. Participants s=
tated that several tasks and assignments have been transferred to nurses wi=
th a lower qualification in order to work as efficiently as possible and to=
 achieve higher productivity. As a result, participants believe that nursin=
g care is, in general, increasingly developing in the direction of task-cen=
tred care in which different working methods are applied. According to them=
, this affects patient experiences of the quality and effectiveness of nurs=
ing care.

The participants stated that if nurses were more involved in the developmen=
t of nursing policies, this would have a positive influence on patient care=
. According to them, they would be able to reflect upon and discuss nursing=
 issues related to the quality of patient care, which would improve the qua=
lity of care.



It could be argued that the dominance of cost-effective policy and transpar=
ency determines the manner in which nurses can practise their profession an=
d that this influences patient experiences of care. Ancarani [41] showed th=
at patient satisfaction was negatively associated with management-controlle=
d wards that are under pressure to produce. Open, collaborative, innovative=
 wards and wards that are focused on the welfare and involvement of nurses =
and that provide supervisory support and training were positively associate=
d with patient satisfaction. This confirms that the environment in which nu=
rses operate influences patient experiences of the quality of care. This co=
rresponds with the findings of our research, in which participants stated t=
hat the dominance of policies focussed on cost-effectiveness and transparen=
cy lead to more pressure to produce and a high administrative workload. The=
 participants feel that they have insufficient autonomy to influence this p=
olicy.

This research revealed several factors that nurses find inhibiting when it =
comes to improving patient experiences of the quality of nursing care. Curr=
ent nursing policy is heavily focussed on cost-effectiveness and transparen=
cy for external accountability, which creates a high administrative workloa=
d and pressure to increase productivity. However, despite all the registrat=
ions that take place for external accountability, the participating nurses =
stated that they do not monitor care results to improve their own practice.=
 They felt they insufficient autonomy to influence this. They believe it is=
 important to reflect upon and discuss nursing issues related to the qualit=
y of patient care, including patient experiences.

Technology is used extensively to provide and deliver health care worldwide=
 [1, 2]. e-Health (the application of information, computer or communicatio=
n technology to some aspects of health or health care) is viewed as essenti=
al for solving problems facing healthcare systems of increasing demand, due=
 to an ageing population and improved treatments, and limited resources [3]=
. However, although there is widespread agreement about the importance and =
potential benefits of e-health, realisation of these benefits has often bee=
n slower than anticipated, often because of difficulties with implementatio=
n [4]. For example, in the UK, the National Health Service (NHS) Five Year =
Forward View [5] states the need to make better use of available health tec=
hnologies and acknowledges that the NHS has previously failed to make best =
use of these because of difficulties in understanding how best to adopt and=
 implement them. High-profile implementation failures continue to be report=
ed, such as the failure of implementation of an e-health system in a major =
UK teaching hospital, leading to reduced performance, demoralised staff, co=
sts of 200 million and the trust being put into special measures [6]. This =
highlights the strong need for those undertaking the implementation of e-he=
alth to understand factors that influence implementation and be well equipp=
ed to devise strategies and interventions to improve the widespread effecti=
ve use of e-health and address blockages to implementation.

The aim of this systematic review of reviews was to provide a synthesis of =
the implementation of e-heath literature that both acknowledges the multi-l=
evel complexity of implementation and also provides a framework for thinkin=
g about implementation in a way that is accessible and useful for those pla=
nning implementation such as health service managers, healthcare profession=
als and researchers. Specific objectives were to (i) identify published rev=
iews pertaining to implementation of e-health systems; (ii) summarise the d=
ata contained in these reviews; (iii) synthesise these data according to th=
e Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) [8]; and (iv) p=
rovide recommendations for future implementations of e-health systems. The =
CFIR provides a systematic way of identifying the factors that are importan=
t for implementation, and its use also allows identification of areas where=
 there is insufficient evidence and further research is required.

The original review had used a thematic approach to analysing and synthesis=
ing the data, together with an analysis based on normalization process theo=
ry, which focusses on the work of implementation. In view of the large amou=
nt of new data, and the subsequent development of the CFIR [10], which pays=
 more detailed attention to aspects such as legislative or financial framew=
orks, we decided to update the analytic approach to use an approach which d=
rew on the principles of meta-ethnography for data synthesis, with the CFIR=
 as an organising framework. The use of a framework like the CFIR aids the =
transferability and comparability of findings from this review to other imp=
lementation studies and allows those undertaking implementation to access t=
he parts of this review that are of most interest to them. The CFIR [8], co=
nsolidates implementation factors from a broad array of implementation theo=
ries and is composed of five major constructs made up of components that in=
fluence the implementation of innovations into practice (see Table 2).

A data extraction form was developed to extract key information and concept=
s from the included studies and to ease comparison between them. Data were =
firstly extracted to describe the type of study including publication date,=
 e-health domain, healthcare setting, inclusion and exclusion criteria and =
methods used. Secondly, the main themes from each review relating to factor=
s that influence implementation of e-health were extracted from both result=
s and discussion sections of the included papers. Data from discussions wer=
e included as they often contained further interpretations from the authors=
, which offered important insights and enhanced the richness of the finding=
s. A summary table created from this matrix with key study details, and sum=
maries of main findings are presented in Additional file 2.
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