Evaluation of a computer-assisted instruction (CAI) module for a patient controlled analgesia Pump.

This project consisted of evaluating a computer-assisted instruction (CAI) module for a patient controlled Analgesia (PCA) pump. Evaluations of the CAI included a pre and post written knowledge test to measure the subject's knowledge about the PCA pump before and after completing the CAI. User satisfaction of the CAI was measured using the Questionnaire for User Interaction Satisfaction (QUIS).

Contributing pain assessment concepts to a controlled terminology.

The objectives of this project were to 1) use a multi-disciplinary pain assessment information model to identify concepts required in Logical Observation Identifiers, Names and Codes (LOINC), 2) submit the proposed LOINC codes to the LOINC committee, and 3) have LOINC names and codes created for others to use.

Redundancy in a computer-generated order list: meeting the needs of nurses at various levels of practice expertise.

Paper-based clinical practice standards usually pertain to a single diagnosis or clinical condition. When a computerized provider order entry system applies multiple paper-based practice standards to one patient, it generates an order list containing redundant orders. Nurses respond to redundant orders on the basis of their level of nursing expertise with clinical care, computers, and practice standard domains.

Development of an information model for storing organ donor data within an electronic medical record.

Objective: To develop a model to store information in an electronic medical record (EMR) for the management of transplant patients. The model for storing donor information must be designed to allow clinicians to access donor information from the transplant recipient's record and to allow donor data to be stored without needlessly proliferating new Logical Observation Identifier Names and Codes (LOINC) codes for already-coded laboratory tests.

Design: Information required to manage transplant patients requires the use of a donor's medical information while caring for the transplant patient.

Development of an information model for solid organ transplantation.

Information required to manage transplant patients and donors is complex, voluminous and requires the reporting and use of one person's medical information within another person's record. One strategy using a vocabulary model (i.e.