Designing a Best Possible Caregiver History to Facilitate Disposition Planning for Older Adults in Emergency Departments.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Detailed information about caregivers is crucial for planning disposition from emergency departments (EDs), but it is unclear what specific information is useful for ED clinicians and how that information should be presented.

Methods

We used a Design Thinking approach to develop a standardized format-which we call a "Best Possible Caregiver History" (BPCH)-for displaying useful caregiver information to ED clinicians. The key steps of this approach are needfinding, followed by iterative cycles of ideation, rapid prototyping, and testing. For needfinding, we used semi-structured interviews of four ED clinicians on current practices for discovering and documenting caregiver information. For ideation and prototyping, we used rapid qualitative analysis to identify th

SUBMITTER: de Sola-Smith K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12303133 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature