Safer prescribing in intensive care: designing a system to reduce errors

Prescribing in intensive care is a complex process involving a number of disciplines working in a highly stressful clinical environment. Within the National Health Service this process is generally written down manually. Errors are made each year as a consequence of illegible or incorrect prescriptions. This research investigates engaging users from multi-disciplines in the design process to result in a system that is usable and demonstrates a reduction in prescribing errors Keywords User-centred design, evaluation, user interfaces, prototyping

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: BCSHCI
• Authors: Kathryn L. Went
• Keywords: BCSHCI 2007, Complex Process, Human Computer Interaction, Keywords User-centred Design, Stressful Clinical Environment