Patient information organization in the intensive care setting: expert knowledge elicitation with card sorting methods.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Many electronic health records fail to support information uptake because they impose low-level information organization tasks on users. Clinical concept-oriented views have shown information processing improvements, but the specifics of this organization for critical care are unclear.

Objective

To determine high-level cognitive processes and patient information organization schema in critical care.

Methods

We conducted an open card sort of 29 patient data elements and a modified Delphi card sort of 65 patient data elements. Study participants were 39 clinicians with varied critical care training and experience. We analyzed the open sort with a hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA) and factor analysis (FA). The Delphi sort was split into three initiating gr

SUBMITTER: Reese T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6077790 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature