What do ER physicians really want? A method for elucidating ER information needs

Prior discharge summaries are a critical source of information for treating emergency room patients. However, reading discharge summaries may occupy more time than emergency care clinicians can afford. It would be beneficial to present vital information in the reports to them so that they would be a...

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Veröffentlicht in:Proceedings. AMIA Symposium. - 1998. - (1999) vom: 23., Seite 390-4
1. Verfasser: Shablinsky, I (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Starren, J, Friedman, C
Format: Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 1999
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Schlagworte:Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
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Zusammenfassung:Prior discharge summaries are a critical source of information for treating emergency room patients. However, reading discharge summaries may occupy more time than emergency care clinicians can afford. It would be beneficial to present vital information in the reports to them so that they would be able to quickly extract and digest it. There are several possible ways to present the information without changing the structure or content of the report itself. As a prelude to an effective study concerning the efficiency of the various presentation approaches, it is first necessary to know which diagnoses would benefit from past history, and what kind of information is most important to present for each of the diagnoses. In this study, we present a method for elucidating emergency care information needs from clinicians. Analysis of the data obtained from clinicians resulted in generation of a list of important diagnoses and informational categories. For validation, the clinicians were shown sample reports and were asked to highlight critical information. Overall, predicted important items correlated with physicians highlighting (Pearson correlation coefficient of 0.650, significance level 0.01)
Beschreibung:Date Completed 01.02.2000
Date Revised 13.11.2018
published: Print
Citation Status MEDLINE
ISSN:1531-605X