Codebook with definitions of themes, categories and populations
| Themes | |
| Patient | A person who is receiving, has received or has requested healthcare73 |
| Process | The act of prescribing and administering medication by health experts |
| Terms and conditions | Necessary requirements (in form and content) to create and work with medication charts |
| Categories | |
| Knowledge | Patients’ understanding of his/her medical treatment (factual knowledge) |
| Safety | Medication safety (freedom from preventable harm with medication use) and patient safety (reduction of unsafe acts within the healthcare system, as well as the use of best practices shown to lead to optimal patient outcomes)73 |
| Purpose | The function or aim that a medication chart is fulfilling for someone |
| Communication | Verbal interaction between patient and healthcare provider |
| Empowerment | Patients’ individual belief in his/her own capabilities to execute courses of actions in order to achieve health-related goals74 |
| Interdisciplinary cooperation | The degree to which healthcare providers are networked and interact within their professions (including communication, co-working and information exchange)74 |
| Resources | Management of finances, income and expenditure |
| Prescription | A written directive to dispense and administrate medications to a particular patient |
| Patient files | A document or a collection of documents, which contain demographic, medical and treatment information about a patient |
| Populations | |
| Physicians/pharmacists/hospital | Anyone of the following healthcare providers: physicians, pharmacists, nurses, medical or pharmaceutical assistant |
| Patients ambulant/nursing home | Any patient who is treated in outpatient care (including diagnosis, observation, consultation, treatment, intervention and rehabilitation services) or stayed in a residential facility75 |
| Patients hospitalised/discharged | Any patient who stayed in a hospital (ie, inpatient facilities for 24-hour medical and nursing care) or recently terminated such a stay75 |
| Citizens | Any individual who was present in a certain precinct and participated in a survey |