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Fig. 1 | Safety in Health

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From: Professional culture, information security and healthcare quality—an interview study of physicians’ and nurses’ perspectives on value conflicts in the use of electronic medical records

Fig. 1

The model illustrates the essential values among physicians and nurses, as they emerged in the study, and how different values are weighed in relation to each other, thus guiding adherence to formally prescribed information security rules. To keep an acceptable balance between different desirable phenomena (values and rules), the pivot point in the decision to act in a dilemma shifts dynamically, as the weight of each specific desirable depends on an evaluation of the entire situational context, and always in relation to the overarching value of ensuring the patients’ physical health and well-being

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