Healthcare practice by providers such as physicians, surgeons, nurses and other licensed practitioners consists of making decisions as to the nature of a patient's condition, selecting a course of action, and, very often, performing medical procedures to aid the patient to recover. Clinical decision-making and clinical procedures are symbiotic. Care providers must choose the correct procedure to perform which then must be performed correctly. Patient outcomes depend greatly on making the correct decisions as well as on performing the clinical procedure accurately and in a timely manner while following guidelines. Conversely, incorrect performance of clinical procedures can have serious adverse effects on patient morbidity and mortality and lead to incorrect care decisions subsequently.
Additionally, while clinical procedures are typically performed by trained physicians, surgeons, and nurses, some patients, especially those needing complex or long-term care, may need to self-manage their condition. In such cases the patients and family caregivers need to regularly and accurately follow medical advice such as wound-care, exercise, medication, and diet regimens.
Several barriers preclude timely and accurate performance of clinical procedures. These include lack of practice (especially of procedures performed infrequently), training deficits in clinical decision-making, haptic skills, missing important steps in the procedure, handling time-constraints, workload, among others. Due to the crucial importance of performing clinical procedures correctly and the potential that some procedures might not be performed consistently, tools have been developed to assist in correct performance of clinical procedures. Examples include checklists, virtual reality simulation and videos. However, these have not been formally identified as Clinical Procedure Support Systems (CPSS) and many aspects in regard to these tools, including cognition, human computer interface, and user experience/interface, have not yet been studied in detail.
The goal of this Research Topic is to establish clinical procedure support (CPS) and CPSS as an important discipline in its own right to complement research into clinical decision-making. This article collection will feature papers by experts in healthcare and informatics. Manuscripts may cover a variety of aspects in regard to CPS and CPSS including procedure cognition, haptic skills, analyzing haptic inputs, and ability to recover from errors and unexpected events.
Keywords:
clinical procedure support systems, user experience, human computer interaction, informatics, healthcare, clinical decision making
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
Healthcare practice by providers such as physicians, surgeons, nurses and other licensed practitioners consists of making decisions as to the nature of a patient's condition, selecting a course of action, and, very often, performing medical procedures to aid the patient to recover. Clinical decision-making and clinical procedures are symbiotic. Care providers must choose the correct procedure to perform which then must be performed correctly. Patient outcomes depend greatly on making the correct decisions as well as on performing the clinical procedure accurately and in a timely manner while following guidelines. Conversely, incorrect performance of clinical procedures can have serious adverse effects on patient morbidity and mortality and lead to incorrect care decisions subsequently.
Additionally, while clinical procedures are typically performed by trained physicians, surgeons, and nurses, some patients, especially those needing complex or long-term care, may need to self-manage their condition. In such cases the patients and family caregivers need to regularly and accurately follow medical advice such as wound-care, exercise, medication, and diet regimens.
Several barriers preclude timely and accurate performance of clinical procedures. These include lack of practice (especially of procedures performed infrequently), training deficits in clinical decision-making, haptic skills, missing important steps in the procedure, handling time-constraints, workload, among others. Due to the crucial importance of performing clinical procedures correctly and the potential that some procedures might not be performed consistently, tools have been developed to assist in correct performance of clinical procedures. Examples include checklists, virtual reality simulation and videos. However, these have not been formally identified as Clinical Procedure Support Systems (CPSS) and many aspects in regard to these tools, including cognition, human computer interface, and user experience/interface, have not yet been studied in detail.
The goal of this Research Topic is to establish clinical procedure support (CPS) and CPSS as an important discipline in its own right to complement research into clinical decision-making. This article collection will feature papers by experts in healthcare and informatics. Manuscripts may cover a variety of aspects in regard to CPS and CPSS including procedure cognition, haptic skills, analyzing haptic inputs, and ability to recover from errors and unexpected events.
Keywords:
clinical procedure support systems, user experience, human computer interaction, informatics, healthcare, clinical decision making
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.