Evaluation of a 3D serious game for advanced life support retraining

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 82, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 798-809

  Buttussi, Fabio ^a   Pellis, Tommaso ^b   Cabas Vidani, Alberto ^a   Pausler, Daniele ^c   Carchietti, Elio ^c   Chittaro, Luca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b S MARIA DEGLI ANGELI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c SANTA MARIA DELLA MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Advanced cardiac life support; Computer simulation; Education; Evaluation studies; Retraining; Serious gaming

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORTS; EVALUATION STUDY; LIFE SUPPORTS; MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS; RETRAINING; SCENARIO-BASED; SELF-CORRECTION; SERIOUS GAMING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDUCATION; TOOLS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MULTIPLE CHOICE TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; RECREATION; RESUSCITATION; SKILL;

EID: 84881376172     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: 18728243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2013.05.007     Document Type: Article

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