A Qualitative Inquiry of Patients Using Virtual Reality to Mitigate Cancer Pain.

Introduction: Virtual reality (VR) is a rapidly evolving technology that has been shown to improve pain severity in different disease states, including cancer. To date, VR pain studies have used off-the-shelf products for pain distraction. What are user preferences for VR content to mitigate cancer pain?.

Inbox message prioritization and management approaches in primary care.

Objectives: Patient messaging to clinicians has dramatically increased since the pandemic, leading to informatics efforts to categorize incoming messages. We examined how message prioritization (as distinct from categorization) occurs in primary care, and how primary care clinicians managed their inbox workflows.

Materials And Methods: Semi-structured interviews and inbox work observations with 11 primary care clinicians at MedStar Health.

Development and Evaluation of Patient Safety Interventions: Perspectives of Operational Safety Leaders and Patient Safety Organizations.

Objectives: The purpose of this study is to understand how patient safety professionals from healthcare facilities and patient safety organizations develop patient safety interventions and the resources used to support intervention development.

Methods: Semistructured interviews were conducted with patient safety professionals at nine healthcare facilities and nine patient safety organizations. Interview data were qualitatively analyzed, and findings were organized by the following: patient safety solutions and interventions, use of external databases, and evaluation of patient safety solutions.

Pilot assessment of an on-demand telehealth 'left without being seen' follow-up programme.

Introduction: On-demand telehealth can have a high rate of patients requesting visits and dropping off without being seen by a provider, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods: On-demand telehealth requests made to a large healthcare system in the USA between 15 March 2020 and 31 May 2020 were included for analysis with a focus on patients who were defined as left without being seen (LWBS). As part of a pilot program a registered nurse attempted to call LWBS patients within 24 hours of their telehealth request and asked if they were ok, if they sought care for their original visit reason, what that care was, or if they still needed guidance.

The Evaluation of Tactile Parameters and Display Prototype to Support Physiological Monitoring and Multitasking for Anesthesia Providers in the Operating Room.

Communicating physiological information via the tactile modality is shown as a promising means to address data overload faced by anesthesia providers. However, it is important to ensure that the tactile parameters which represent information are intuitive. There is currently no consensus on which tactile parameters should be used to present information within anesthesia.

Evaluating Improvements and Shortcomings in Clinician Satisfaction With Electronic Health Record Usability.

This cross-sectional study compares reported 2015 system usability scale scores for electronic health record systems with 2014 scores and with benchmarks to evaluate whether satisfaction is improving.

Now You Feel It, Now You Don't: The Effect of Movement, Cue Complexity, and Body Location on Tactile Change Detection.

Objective: To evaluate the effects that movement, cue complexity, and the location of tactile displays on the body have on tactile change detection.

Background: Tactile displays have been demonstrated as a means to address data overload by offloading the visual and auditory modalities. However, change blindness-the failure to detect changes in a stimulus when changes coincide with another event or disruption in stimulus continuity-has been demonstrated to affect the tactile modality and may be exacerbated during movement.