Emergency medicine resident physicians' perceptions of electronic documentation and workflow: a mixed methods study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To understand emergency department (ED) physicians' use of electronic documentation in order to identify usability and workflow considerations for the design of future ED information system (EDIS) physician documentation modules.

Methods

We invited emergency medicine resident physicians to participate in a mixed methods study using task analysis and qualitative interviews. Participants completed a simulated, standardized patient encounter in a medical simulation center while documenting in the test environment of a currently used EDIS. We recorded the time on task, type and sequence of tasks performed by the participants (including tasks performed in parallel). We then conducted semi-structured interviews with each participant. We analyzed these qualitative data us

SUBMITTER: Neri PM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4377558 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature