Enhancing prehospital decision-making: exploring user needs and design considerations for clinical decision support systems.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In prehospital emergency care, providers face significant challenges in making informed decisions due to factors such as limited cognitive support, high-stress environments, and lack of experience with certain patient conditions. Effective Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS) have great potential to alleviate these challenges. However, such systems have not yet been widely adopted in real-world practice and have been found to cause workflow disruptions and usability issues. Therefore, it is critical to investigate how to design CDSS that meet the needs of prehospital providers while accounting for the unique characteristics of prehospital workflows.

Methods

We conducted semi-structured interviews with 20 prehospital providers recruited from four Emergency Medi

SUBMITTER: Bai E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11742207 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature