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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Lunkiewicz, Justyna
• Gasciauskaite, Greta
• Roche, Tadzio Raoul
• Akbas, Samira
• Nöthiger, Christoph B
• Ganter, Michael T
• Meybohm, Patrick
• Hottenrott, Sebastian
• Zacharowski, Kai
• Raimann, Florian Jürgen
• Rivas, Eva
• López-Baamonde, Manuel
• Beller, Elisabeth Anna
• Tscholl, David Werner
• Bergauer, Lisa

Titel

User Perceptions of Avatar-Based Patient Monitoring for Intensive Care Units: An International Exploratory Sequential Mixed-Methods Study

Ist Teil von

• Diagnostics (Basel), 2023-11, Vol.13 (21), p.3391

Ort / Verlag

Basel: MDPI AG

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Visual Patient Avatar ICU is an innovative approach to patient monitoring, enhancing the user’s situation awareness in intensive care settings. It dynamically displays the patient’s current vital signs using changes in color, shape, and animation. The technology can also indicate patient-inserted devices, such as arterial lines, central lines, and urinary catheters, along with their insertion locations. We conducted an international, multi-center study using a sequential qualitative-quantitative design to evaluate users’ perception of Visual Patient Avatar ICU among physicians and nurses. Twenty-five nurses and twenty-five physicians from the ICU participated in the structured interviews. Forty of them completed the online survey. Overall, ICU professionals expressed a positive outlook on Visual Patient Avatar ICU. They described Visual Patient Avatar ICU as a simple and intuitive tool that improved information retention and facilitated problem identification. However, a subset of participants expressed concerns about potential information overload and a sense of incompleteness due to missing exact numerical values. These findings provide valuable insights into user perceptions of Visual Patient Avatar ICU and encourage further technology development before clinical implementation.