Publications by authors named "Madeleine M McCarty"
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- Decision aids (DAs) have been developed to help patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) make informed choices about stroke prevention, specifically through an encounter DA (EDA) and a patient DA (PDA) that have not previously been used together.
- The development of these DAs involved iterative user-centered design, gathering feedback from both patients and experts to refine their effectiveness, resulting in significant improvements based on user needs.
- While successful in enhancing shared decision making, the DAs are limited to online use and focus solely on anticoagulation options, which could potentially exclude those less familiar with technology.
Background: Shared decision making (SDM) improves the likelihood that patients will receive care in a manner consistent with their priorities. To facilitate SDM, decision aids (DA) are commonly used, both to prepare a patient before their clinician visit, as well as to facilitate discussion during the visit. However, the relative efficacy of patient-focused or encounter-based DAs on SDM and patient outcomes remains largely unknown.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn-vehicle information systems (IVIS) refer to a collection of features in vehicles that allow motorists to complete tasks (often unrelated to driving) while operating the vehicle. These systems may interfere, to a greater extent, with older drivers' ability to attend to the visual and cognitive demands of the driving environment. The current study sought to examine age-related differences in the visual, cognitive and temporal demands associated with IVIS interactions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: New automobiles provide a variety of features that allow motorists to perform a plethora of secondary tasks unrelated to the primary task of driving. Despite their ubiquity, surprisingly little is known about how these complex multimodal in-vehicle information systems (IVIS) interactions impact a driver's workload.
Results: The current research sought to address three interrelated questions concerning this knowledge gap: (1) Are some task types more impairing than others? (2) Are some modes of interaction more distracting than others? (3) Are IVIS interactions easier to perform in some vehicles than others? Depending on the availability of the IVIS features in each vehicle, our testing involved an assessment of up to four task types (audio entertainment, calling and dialing, text messaging, and navigation) and up to three modes of interaction (e.
Objective: The present research compared and contrasted the workload associated with using in-vehicle information systems commonly available in five different automotive original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) with that of CarPlay and Android Auto when used in the same vehicles.
Background: A growing trend is to provide access to portable smartphone-based systems (e.g.