A5071926573- Healthcare Technology and Patient Monitoring
- Electronic Health Records Systems
- Quality and Safety in Healthcare
- Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes
- Digital Imaging in Medicine
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Patient Safety and Medication Errors
- Persona Design and Applications
- Non-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring
MedStar Health
2022-2023
Human Factors (Norway)
2022-2023
Background: Alarms are signals intended to capture and direct human attention a potential issue that may require monitoring, assessment, or intervention play critical safety role in high-risk industries. Healthcare relies heavily on auditory visual alarms. While there some guidelines inform alarm design use, fatigue other issues challenges the healthcare setting. Automotive, aviation, nuclear industries have used science of factors develop use guidelines. These provide important insights for...
Background Despite their prevalence, poorly designed electronic health records (EHRs) are common, and research shows poor design consequences include clinician burnout, diagnostic error, even patient harm. One of the major difficulties EHR is visual display information, which aims to present information in an easily digestible form for user. High-risk industries like aviation, automotive, nuclear have guidelines displays based on human factors principles optimized design. Purpose In this...
Background: Duplicate medication orders are a prominent type of error that in some circumstances has increased after implementation health information technology. commonly defined as two or more active for the same medications within therapeutic class. While there have been several studies identified contributing factors and described potential solutions, duplicate order errors continue to impact patient safety. Methods: We analyzed 377 reports from 95 healthcare facilities granularly define...
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