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dc.contributor.authorSt-Maurice, Justin D.
dc.contributor.authorBurns, Catherine M.
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-27 15:03:10 (GMT)
dc.date.available2021-09-27 15:03:10 (GMT)
dc.date.issued2017-07-28
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.2196/humanfactors.6857
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10012/17540
dc.descriptionhttps://doi.org/10.2196/humanfactors.6857en
dc.description.abstractBackground: Health care is a complex sociotechnical system. Patient treatment is evolving and needs to incorporate the use of technology and new patient-centered treatment paradigms. Cognitive work analysis (CWA) is an effective framework for understanding complex systems, and work domain analysis (WDA) is useful for understanding complex ecologies. Although previous applications of CWA have described patient treatment, due to their scope of work patients were previously characterized as biomedical machines, rather than patient actors involved in their own care. Objective: An abstraction hierarchy that characterizes patients as beings with complex social values and priorities is needed. This can help better understand treatment in a modern approach to care. The purpose of this study was to perform a WDA to represent the treatment of patients with medical records. Methods: The methods to develop this model included the analysis of written texts and collaboration with subject matter experts. Our WDA represents the ecology through its functional purposes, abstract functions, generalized functions, physical functions, and physical forms. Results: Compared with other work domain models, this model is able to articulate the nuanced balance between medical treatment, patient education, and limited health care resources. Concepts in the analysis were similar to the modeling choices of other WDAs but combined them in as a comprehensive, systematic, and contextual overview. The model is helpful to understand user competencies and needs. Future models could be developed to model the patient’s domain and enable the exploration of the shared decision-making (SDM) paradigm. Conclusion: Our work domain model links treatment goals, decision-making constraints, and task workflows. This model can be used by system developers who would like to use ecological interface design (EID) to improve systems. Our hierarchy is the first in a future set that could explore new treatment paradigms. Future hierarchies could model the patient as a controller and could be useful for mobile app development.en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherJMIRen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesJMIR Human Factors;
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/*
dc.subjectclinical decision-makingen
dc.subjecthealth services researchen
dc.subjectqualitative researchen
dc.subjectprimary health careen
dc.subjectmedical records systemsen
dc.subjectcomputerizeden
dc.titleModeling Patient Treatment With Medical Records: An Abstraction Hierarchy to Understand User Competencies and Needsen
dc.typeArticleen
dcterms.bibliographicCitationSt-Maurice, J. D., & Burns, C. M. (2017). Modeling Patient Treatment With Medical Records: An Abstraction Hierarchy to Understand User Competencies and Needs. JMIR Human Factors, 4(3), e6857. https://doi.org/10.2196/humanfactors.6857en
uws.contributor.affiliation1Faculty of Engineeringen
uws.contributor.affiliation2Systems Design Engineeringen
uws.typeOfResourceTexten
uws.peerReviewStatusRevieweden
uws.scholarLevelFacultyen


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