Don't forget about human factors: Lessons learned from COVID-19 point-of-care testing.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the development of point-of-care (POC) diagnostic testing accelerated in an unparalleled fashion. As a result, there has been an increased need for accurate, robust, and easy-to-use POC testing in a variety of non-traditional settings (i.e.

Aging With Long-Term Mobility Impairment: Maintaining Activities of Daily Living via Selection, Optimization, and Compensation.

Background And Objectives: There is a growing number of adults with long-term mobility impairment aging into the older adult population. Little is known about the experiences of these individuals in maintaining activities of daily living (ADLs) and instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs) as they face age-related changes in addition to a pre-existing mobility impairment.

Research Design And Methods: Through in-home interviews with 21 participants (ages 52-86) with long-term mobility impairment, the present study employed a qualitative description design to explore perceptions of how and why select ADL/IADL routines (e.

Lessons learned from the analysis of soldier collected blast data.

In recent U.S. military experience, widespread exposure to improvised explosive devices has been implicated in noticeable changes in the incidence of brain injuries inversely related to reduced mortality--thought to be the unintended consequence of increase in exposure to blast wave effects--secondary to improved vital organ protection, improved personal protective equipment.

The integrated blast effects sensor suite: a rapidly developed, complex, system of systems.

Spurned by the increasing concern and consciousness of traumatic brain injuries in deployed U.S. service members, the U.

Older Adults' Use of and Attitudes toward Activity Monitoring Technologies.

Self-management of health is becoming increasingly important in today's healthcare climate. Activity monitoring technologies have the potential to support health self-management by tracking, storing, compiling, and providing feedback about an individual's engagement in movement activities. Older adults represent a fast growing segment of the population who may benefit from such technologies.

Assessment of workplace product accessibility: a human factors perspective.

This paper illustrates the advantages of using human factors evaluation techniques as a method of informing rehabilitation service provider decisions about client care and assistive technology selection. Successful integration of accessibility evaluation techniques can strengthen an evidence based service program and offer service providers another tool for providing efficient, effective, and rapid services to individuals in need. With accessibility evaluation data showing the functional abilities required to operate a given product or set of products, it is possible to empirically demonstrate that an individual has the potential to successfully utilize the provided workplace equipment.

Aging and decision making: driving-related problem solving.

We examined age-related effects on decision making in a task environment familiar to most younger and older adults. Participants made route-selection decisions in real time. Participants received information about traffic density and expected speed limits of main and alternative routes, from which they determined the optimality of their present route versus alternative routes.

Comparability of alcohol and drug use in injured drivers.

During a recent 5-month period, 201 injured drivers were admitted to a level 1 trauma center. Blood alcohol concentrations (BACs) and drug screens were obtained in 187 and 164 subjects, respectively. BACs were positive in 37% and other drugs were confirmed in 40%, suggesting that alcohol and drug use among injured drivers is comparable.

Alcohol and drug use by alcohol and drug abusers when incarcerated: clinical and research implications.

Alcohol (n = 24) and drug (n = 60) abusers reported frequent alcohol and/or drug use while incarcerated in hospitals, jails, and residential treatment programs. Although substance use by addicts while incarcerated may be a "well-known" clinical phenomenon, there are virtually no published data regarding the range and frequencies of such behaviors. The clinical and research implications of frequent drug and alcohol use by alcohol and drug abusers when incarcerated are discussed.

A comparison of the abilities of chlorpromazine and molindone to interact adversely with guanethidine.

Chlorpromazine and molindone were tested for their abilities to impair conditioned avoidance behavior of rats. Chlorpromazine was effective within the dose range of 0.3 to 7.