Paper Info
Title
Informing Digital Cognitive Aids Design for Emergency Medical Work by Understanding Paper Checklist Use
Abstract
We examine the use of a paper-based checklist during 48 simulated trauma resuscitations to inform the design of digital cognitive aids for safety-critical medical teamwork. Our analysis focused on team communication and interaction behaviors as physician leaders led resuscitations and administered the checklist. We found that the checklist increased the amount of communication between the leader and the team, but did not compromise the leader's interactions with the environment. In addition, we observed several changes in team dynamics: the checklist facilitated collaborative decision making and process reflections, but it also made some team members reactive rather than proactive. As the push toward digitizing medical work continues, we expect that paper checklists will soon be replaced by their digital counterparts. Designing interactive cognitive aids for medical domains, however, poses many challenges. Our results offer directions for how these tools could be designed to support medical work in increasingly digital environments.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1145/2660398.2660423
GROUP
Keywords
Field
DocType
team dynamics,communication,miscellaneous,medical checklist,digital cognitive aids,emergency medicine.,leadership,emergency medicine
Checklist,Teamwork,Computer science,Knowledge management,Compromise,Team communication,Cognition,Group decision-making
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.64
10
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zhan Zhang1183.87
Aleksandra Sarcevic218226.75
Maria Yala320.64
Randall S. Burd412221.53