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Table 1 Description of recruited units

From: ‘You can’t just hit a button’: an ethnographic study of strategies to repurpose data from advanced clinical information systems for clinical process improvement

Clinical information system (CIS) brand

Years owned

No. of beds

Customization time allocated

Innovian (Draeger)

3

14

3 h/week consultant

Metavision with purchased database (iMDsoft)

4

20

6 h/week nurse plus consultant time

Metavision with own database (iMDsoft)

4

26

Part-time administrator

QS (General Electric)

8

13

Full-time nurse administrator

Carevue (Philips)

10

88

2 full-time nurse administrators