Biomedical Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
Teaching System
Subjective response to the resource; rate and duration of use of the various
components (e.g., graphics, simulation routines); total time spent by users
per session; time taken to access and learn a given set of facts; accuracy of
recall of learned facts, decrement over time; effect on users' diagnostic, ther-
apeutic, prognostic decisions and actions; effect on users' subjective con-
fidence about similar clinical cases;
effect on users' knowledge or
understanding of biomedicine.
Patient Simulation Package
Subjective ease of use; number of parameters adjusted by users (as a
percentage of the total number); effect on users' diagnostic, therapeutic,
prognostic decisions and actions; effect on users' subjective confidence
about similar cases; effect on users' knowledge or understanding of
biomedicine.
Patient Monitor
Users' response to the alarms and the monitor; alarm rate, false alarm rate,
detection rate for true alarm conditions; how much of the time the users
disable the alarm; effect on users' diagnostic, therapeutic, prognostic deci-
sions and actions; effect on users' subjective confidence about clinical cases.
Appendix B
Specific Functions of Selected Computer-Based
Information Resources
Database
Data security:
methods for backing up patient data,
changing user
defaults/settings.
Data confidentiality: password control, file encryption.
Flexibility of file structure, ability to extend contents of data dictionary.
Reliability of hardware/software during power loss.
Maximum transaction capacity.
Data Coding/Translation Component
Use of coded data, coding accuracy, accuracy of mapping codes to
another system; percent of data items possible to code; ease of extending
codes.
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