Assessing the validity of using serious game technology to analyze physician decision making.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Physician non-compliance with clinical practice guidelines remains a critical barrier to high quality care. Serious games (using gaming technology for serious purposes) have emerged as a method of studying physician decision making. However, little is known about their validity.

Methods

We created a serious game and evaluated its construct validity. We used the decision context of trauma triage in the Emergency Department of non-trauma centers, given widely accepted guidelines that recommend the transfer of severely injured patients to trauma centers. We designed cases with the premise that the representativeness heuristic influences triage (i.e. physicians make transfer decisions based on archetypes of severely injured patients rather than guidelines). We randomi

SUBMITTER: Mohan D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4143260 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature