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

Applied Ergonomics

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1668-1677

  Furniss, Dominic ^a   Masci, Paolo ^b   Curzon, Paul ^b   Mayer, Astrid ^c   Blandford, Ann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL FREE LONDON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Human factors; Medical devices; Situated studies

Indexed keywords

HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

BLOOD GLUCOSE METERS; CASE-STUDIES; ERGONOMIC ASSESSMENT; KNOWLEDGE GAPS; MEDICAL DEVICES; MENTAL MODEL; SITUATED STUDIES;

ERGONOMICS;

ARTICLE; BLOOD GLUCOSE METER; BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORING; CASE STUDY; CONNECTION BETWEEN SERVICES; DIABETES MELLITUS; ERGONOMICS; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITAL POLICY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; KNOWLEDGE GAPS MENTAL MODEL; MEDICAL DEVICE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; ONCOLOGY WARD; PATIENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; USABILITY; WIDER TASK AND EQUIPMENT; WORKAROUND; ANALYSIS; BIOENGINEERING; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING; POLICY; WORKLOAD;

GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL;

BLOOD GLUCOSE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL; WORKLOAD;

EID: 84905056611     PISSN: 00036870     EISSN: 18729126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2014.05.012     Document Type: Article

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