Examining Pediatric Resident Electronic Health Records Use During Prerounding: Mixed Methods Observational Study.

Background: Electronic health records (EHRs) play a substantial role in modern health care, especially during prerounding, when residents gather patient information to inform daily care decisions of the care team. The effective use of the EHR system is crucial for efficient and frustration-free prerounding. Ideally, the system should be designed to support efficient user interactions by presenting data effectively and providing easy navigation between different pages.

Workload transition rate matters: Evidence from growth curve modeling.

This research examined three specific gaps in the workload transition literature: (1) the impact of workload transition rate, (2) the applicability of current theoretical explanations, and (3) the variability of performance overall and over time. Sixty Naval flight students multitasked in an unmanned aerial vehicle control testbed and workload transitioned at three rates: slow, medium, or fast. Response time and accuracy were analyzed via growth curve modeling.

Scan-based eye tracking measures are predictive of workload transition performance.

Given there is no unifying theory or design guidance for workload transitions, this work investigated how visual attention allocation patterns could inform both topics, by understanding if scan-based eye tracking metrics could predict workload transition performance trends in a context-relevant domain. The eye movements of sixty Naval flight students were tracked as workload transitioned at a slow, medium, and fast pace in an unmanned aerial vehicle testbed. Four scan-based metrics were significant predictors across the different growth curve models of response time and accuracy.

Usability challenges with electronic health records (EHRs) during prerounding on pediatric inpatients.

Objective: Prerounding is critical for a healthcare team to develop a shared understanding of the patient's condition and to develop a care plan. However, the design of electronic health records (EHRs) often makes prerounding inefficient, ineffective, and time consuming. The goal of this study was to observe how residents use the EHR while prerounding to identify usability challenges associated with the design of EHRs.

Engineering of beta-propeller protein scaffolds by multiple gene duplication and fusion of an idealized WD repeat.

The ability to design specific amino acid sequences that fold into desired structures is central to engineering novel proteins. Protein design is also a good method to assess our understanding of sequence-structure and structure-function relationships. While beta-sheet structures are important elements of protein architecture, it has traditionally been more difficult to design beta-proteins than alpha-helical proteins.