Novel Interface Designs for Patient Monitoring Applications in Critical Care Medicine: Human Factors Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The patient monitor (PM) is one of the most commonly used medical devices in hospitals worldwide. PMs are used to monitor patients' vital signs in a wide variety of patient care settings, especially in critical care settings, such as intensive care units. An interesting observation is that the design of PMs has not significantly changed over the past 2 decades, with the layout and structure of PMs more or less unchanged, with incremental changes in design being made rather than transformational changes. Thus, we believe it well-timed to review the design of novel PM interfaces, with particular reference to usability and human factors.

Objective

This paper aims to review innovations in PM design proposed by researchers and explore how clinicians responded to these

SUBMITTER: Andrade E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7367533 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature