Toward Designing Information Display to Support Critical Care. A Qualitative Contextual Evaluation and Visioning Effort.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Electronic health information overload makes it difficult for providers to quickly find and interpret information to support care decisions. The purpose of this study was to better understand how clinicians use information in critical care to support the design of improved presentation of electronic health information.

Methods

We conducted a contextual analysis and visioning project. We used an eye-tracker to record 20 clinicians' information use activities in critical care settings. We played video recordings back to clinicians in retrospective cued interviews and queried: 1) context and goals of information use, 2) impacts of current display design on use, and 3) processes related to information use. We analyzed interview transcripts using grounded theory-based

SUBMITTER: Wright MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5228134 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature