Journal article
Using Heuristic Evaluation to Improve Sepsis Alert Usability
Critical care nursing clinics of North America, Vol.30(2), pp.297-309
06/01/2018
DOI: 10.1016/j.cnc.2018.02.011
PMID: 29724447
Abstract
Sepsis, life-threatening organ dysfunction in response to infection, is an alarmingly common and aggressive illness in US hospitals, especially for intensive care patients. Preventing sepsis deaths rests on the clinicians' ability to promptly recognize and treat sepsis. To aid early recognition, many organizations have employed clinician-facing electronic sepsis alert systems. However, the effectiveness of the alert relies heavily on the visual interface, textual information, and overall usability. This article reports a usability inspection of a sepsis alert system. The authors found violations in 12 of the 14 usability principles and promote use of this method in practice to systematically identify usability problems.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Using Heuristic Evaluation to Improve Sepsis Alert Usability
- Creators
- Ariani Arista Putri Pertiwi - Universitas Gadjah MadaDan Fraczkowski - University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences SystemSheryl L. Stogis - University of Illinois at ChicagoKaren Dunn Lopez - University of Illinois at Chicago
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Critical care nursing clinics of North America, Vol.30(2), pp.297-309
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.cnc.2018.02.011
- PMID
- 29724447
- ISSN
- 0899-5885
- eISSN
- 1558-3481
- Number of pages
- 14
- Grant note
- Directorate General of Resources for Science, Technology and Higher Education, Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education of Indonesia; Ministry of Research and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia (RISTEK)
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/01/2018
- Academic Unit
- Nursing
- Record Identifier
- 9984370646402771
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