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7 Themes for guiding situated ergonomic assessments of medical devices: A case study of an inpatient glucometer

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A detailed case study that focuses on the design and use of a modern blood glucose meter on an oncology ward and identified 19 issues, which can help guide the situated study of medical devices.
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This article is published in Applied Ergonomics.The article was published on 2014-11-01 and is currently open access. It has received 28 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Situated.

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Cognition In The Wild

TL;DR: The cognition in the wild is universally compatible with any devices to read and is available in the digital library an online access to it is set as public so you can download it instantly.
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Patient safety and interactive medical devices: Realigning work as imagined and work as done

TL;DR: Greater attention needs to be paid to learning points in actual use and user experience to inform manufacturers’ designs, management procurement decisions and local decisions about how devices are used in practice to achieve co-adaptation; without these, the authors foster risks and inefficiencies in healthcare.
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Usability and user experience of medical devices: An overview of the current state, analysis methodologies, and future challenges

TL;DR: The obtained results will help medical-device designers and healthcare professionals understand the main medical-research trends and improve the design process and will be helpful for increasing the satisfaction level among medical- device users and reducing user risks.
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Exploring medical device design and use through layers of Distributed Cognition

TL;DR: A framework that introduces concentric layers to DiCoT, a method that facilitates the application of Distributed Cognition theory is proposed, to explore how an inpatient blood glucose meter is coupled with its context.
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Qualitative ergonomics/human factors research in health care: Current state and future directions.

TL;DR: Significant opportunities remain to enhance the use of qualitative research to advance systems thinking within health care and to draw implications for future efforts.
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To Err Is Human Building a Safer Health System

TL;DR: Boken presenterer en helhetlig strategi for hvordan myndigheter, helsepersonell, industri og forbrukere kan redusere medisinske feil.
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Cognition in the wild

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Distributed cognition: toward a new foundation for human-computer interaction research

TL;DR: This article proposes distributed cognition as a new foundation for human-computer interaction, sketches an integrated research framework, and uses selections from earlier work to suggest how this framework can provide new opportunities in the design of digital work materials.
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Some Unintended Consequences of Information Technology in Health Care: The Nature of Patient Care Information System-related Errors

TL;DR: With a heightened awareness of these issues, informaticians can educate, design systems, implement, and conduct research in such a way that they might be able to avoid the unintended consequences of these subtle silent errors.
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