Development and Evaluation of a Virtual Research Environment to Improve Quality of Care in Overcrowded Emergency Departments: Observational Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite a wide range of literature on emergency department (ED) overcrowding, scientific knowledge on emergency physicians' cognitive processes coping with overcrowding is limited.

Objective

This study aimed to develop and evaluate a virtual research environment that will allow us to study the effect of physicians' strategies and behaviors on quality of care in the context of ED overcrowding.

Methods

A simulation-based observational study was conducted over two stages: the development of a simulation model and its evaluation. A research environment in emergency medicine combining virtual reality and simulated patients was designed and developed. Afterwards, 12 emergency physicians took part in simulation scenarios and had to manage 13 patients during a 2-ho

SUBMITTER: Houze-Cerfon CH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6705008 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature