Etiometry’s T3 Heuristic Evaluation

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-41
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Meyeroff ◽  
Patrice Tremoulet
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Training ◽  
Clinical Decision Making ◽  
Clinical Decision ◽  
Physiological Monitoring ◽  
Heuristic Evaluation ◽  
Short List ◽  
Interactive Display ◽  
Clinical Decision Support Software ◽  
Support Software ◽  
Pulse Oximeters

Five students and a Human Factors Psychology professor participated in a heuristic evaluation of clinical decision support software, called T3, to help improve usability. T3 gathers physiological monitoring data from a variety of sources, e.g. pulse oximeters, electrocardiographs, and ventilators, and uses the data to compute two novel risk indexes. To effectively support clinical decision-making, T3 should present the patient data it collects, as well as the risk indexes that it computes, in an easy to understand interactive display. The evaluation identified 38 potential usability issues, about half of which were deemed ‘not an issue’ or rated as minor. The team developed 11 recommendations for changes to help improve usability of T3. Given the volume and complexity of the information that T3 displays, this is a short list, suggesting relatively good usability. However, none of the evaluators has the clinical training or experience of typical users; it is possible that clinical users would identify additional usability issues.

scholarly journals ACADEMIA’S ROLE TO DRIVE CHANGE IN THE ORTHOTICS AND PROSTHETICS PROFESSION

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Géza Kogler ◽  
Christopher Hovorka
Keyword(s):  
Technology Use ◽  
Clinical Training ◽  
Clinical Decision Making ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Clinical Care ◽  
Clinical Decision ◽  
The United States ◽  
Academic Program ◽  
Number Of Patients ◽  
Curricular Emphasis

This position paper outlines the important role of academia in shaping the orthotics and prosthetics (O&P) profession and preparing for its future. In the United States, most healthcare professions including O&P are under intense pressure to provide cost effective treatments and quantifiable health outcomes. Pivotal changes are needed in the way O&P services are provided to remain competitive. This will require the integration of new technologies and data driven processes that have the potential to streamline workflows, reduce errors and inform new methods of clinical care and device manufacturing. Academia can lead this change, starting with a restructuring in academic program curricula that will enable the next generation of professionals to cope with multiple demands such as the provision of services for an increasing number of patients by a relatively small workforce of certified practitioners delivering these services at a reduced cost, with the expectation of significant, meaningful, and measurable value. Key curricular changes will require replacing traditional labor-intensive and inefficient fabrication methods with the integration of newer technologies (i.e., digital shape capture, digital modeling/rectification and additive manufacturing). Improving manufacturing efficiencies will allow greater curricular emphasis on clinical training and education – an area that has traditionally been underemphasized. Providing more curricular emphasis on holistic patient care approaches that utilize systematic and evidence-based methods in patient assessment, treatment planning, dosage of O&P technology use, and measurement of patient outcomes is imminent. Strengthening O&P professionals’ clinical decision-making skills and decreasing labor-intensive technical fabrication aspects of the curriculum will be critical in moving toward a digital and technology-centric practice model that will enable future practitioners to adapt and survive. Article PDF Link: https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/cpoj/article/view/36673/28349 How To Cite: Kogler GF, Hovorka CF. Academia’s role to drive change in the orthotics and prosthetics profession. Canadian Prosthetics & Orthotics Journal. 2021; Volume 4, Issue 2, No.21. https://doi.org/10.33137/cpoj.v4i2.36673 Corresponding Author: Géza F. KoglerOrthotics and Prosthetics Unit, Kennesaw State University.E-Mail: [email protected] ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0212-5520

scholarly journals Information-seeking behaviors and barriers to the incorporation of scientific evidence into clinical practice: A survey with Brazilian dentists

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. e0249260
Author(s):  
Branca Heloisa Oliveira ◽  
Izabel Monteiro D. Hyppolito ◽  
Zilson Malheiros ◽  
Bernal Stewart ◽  
Claudio Mendes Pannuti
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Clinical Training ◽  
Clinical Decision Making ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Clinical Decision ◽  
Dental Students ◽  
Southeastern Brazil ◽  
Bibliographic Databases

The aim of this online cross-sectional study is to identify the sources of scientific information used by Brazilian dentists in clinical decision-making and the barriers that they perceive as important to the incorporation of scientific evidence into clinical practice. A pretested questionnaire created in Google Forms which was made available to participants through links sent by e-mail or shared on Facebook® and Instagram® was used to collect the data between October 2018 and May 2019. Only dentists who were involved in direct or indirect care of patients (i.e. clinicians who performed dental procedures or dental educators who participated in the clinical training of graduate or postgraduate dental students) were asked to complete the questionnaire. The sample was comprised of 528 dentists (the response rate from the alumni database was 6.9%); their mean age was 45.2 years (±12.5) and 30.9% had an academic position. The majority were women (68.0%) and lived in Southern or Southeastern Brazil (96.0%). The sources of scientific information more frequently used by them in clinical decision-making were clinical guidelines (65.1%; 95% CI: 60.9, 69.2), scientific articles (56.8%; 95%CI: 52.5, 61.1) and bibliographic databases (48.3%; 95% CI: 43.9, 52.6). The information resource less frequently used was social media. The most important barriers to the clinical use of scientific evidence were: difficulty in determining whether scientific contents found on the Internet were reliable or not (41.8%; 95% CI: 37.6, 46.2), high cost of access to scientific papers (37.7%; 95% CI: 33.5, 41.9), and lack of time for reading scientific articles (32.4%; 95% CI: 28.4, 36.6). Although Brazilian dentists show a positive attitude towards obtaining scientific evidence from reliable sources, there still remain important barriers to the translation of evidence into practice. This can have significant implications for quality of care and should be further investigated.

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