Human factors and safety analysis methods used in the design and redesign of electronic medication management systems: A systematic review.

Introduction: Poorly designed electronic medication management systems (EMMS) or computerized physician order entry (CPOE) systems in hospital settings can result in usability issues and in turn, patient safety risks. As a safety science, human factors and safety analysis methods have potential to support the safe and usable design of EMMS.

Objective: To identify and describe human factors and safety analysis methods that have been used in the design or redesign of EMMS used in hospital settings.

"Experience Isn't Everything": How Emotion Affects the Relationship Between Experience and Cue Utilization.

Objective: This research examined whether negative and positive arousal emotions modify the relationship between experience level and cue utilization among anesthetists.

Background: The capacity of a practitioner to form precise associations between clusters of features (e.g.

Positive Affect Is Associated With Reduced Fixation in a Realistic Medical Simulation.

Objective: This study extends previous research by exploring the association between mood states (i.e., positive and negative affect) and fixation in practicing anesthetists using a realistic medical simulation.

Expert and competent non-expert visual cues during simulated diagnosis in intensive care.

The aim of this study was to examine the information acquisition strategies of expert and competent non-expert intensive care physicians during two simulated diagnostic scenarios involving respiratory distress in an infant. Specifically, the information acquisition performance of six experts and 12 competent non-experts was examined using an eye-tracker during the initial 90 s of the assessment of the patient. The results indicated that, in comparison to competent non-experts, experts recorded longer mean fixations, irrespective of the scenario.

Trait-based cue Utilization and initial skill acquisition: implications for models of the progression to expertise.

The primary aim of this study was to examine the role of cue utilization in the initial acquisition of psycho-motor skills. Two experiments were undertaken, the first of which examined the relationship between cue utilization typologies and levels of accuracy following four simulated, power-off landing trials in a light aircraft simulator. The results indicated that higher levels of cue utilization were associated with a greater level of landing accuracy following training exposure.

The capability of static and dynamic features to distinguish competent from genuinely expert practitioners in pediatric diagnosis.

Objective: The authors describe the development of a new, more objective method of distinguishing experienced competent nonexpert from expert practitioners within pediatric intensive care.

Background: Expert performance involves the acquisition and use of refined feature-event associations (cues) in the operational environment. Competent non-experts, although experienced, possess rudimentary cue associations in memory.

An objective approach to identifying diagnostic expertise among power system controllers.

Objective: The present study investigated whether performance across a range of cue-based cognitive tasks differentiated the diagnostic performance of power control operators into three distinct groups, characteristic of novice, competence, and expertise.

Background: Despite its increasing importance in the contemporary workplace, there is little understanding of the cognitive processes that distinguish novice, competent, and expert performance in the context of remote diagnosis. However, recent evidence suggests that cue acquisition and utilization may represent a mechanism by which the transition from novice to expertise occurs.