Table 3Interview Questions

  • Which monitored variables are the most confusing ones?
  • Think about information that would make patient monitoring more effective. Which information is currently missing on physiologic monitors?
  • What are your main concerns with current patient monitors in general and, in particular, with the specific monitor you are using?
  • Think about a situation when you and your colleagues work under serious time pressure. Are there errors you observe in others that are related to or caused by patient monitors?
  • Which are the parameters on physiologic monitors for which trend information is, or would be important?
  • Is all the trend information that you want available?
  • Think about the way trend information is currently displayed. Is this mode of information presentation optimal?
  • In order to get other data, you have to go through menus. When you do this, what is the information you are looking for, and how easy is it for you to get through the menus?

From: Patient Monitors in Critical Care: Lessons for Improvement

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Advances in Patient Safety: New Directions and Alternative Approaches (Vol. 3: Performance and Tools).
Henriksen K, Battles JB, Keyes MA, et al., editors.
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