Mobile decision support for transplantation patient data

@article{citeulike:1512440, abstract = {In high-critical medical fields instant information delivery is essential. Task-flow analyses within the transplantation unit of the Technische Universitat Munchen revealed that valuable time could be saved in pre-transplantation management being able to retrieve data of organ receivers ubiquitously. Inspired by this clinical scenario, a mobile application was designed and implemented providing surgeons with decision-relevant information on potential organ receivers. It assists them in considering the prospects of forthcoming organ transplantations and facilitates decision making and documentation with regard to high security demands. The described system services three organ receiver lists and is used by the surgeons in every transplantation procedure. After a 6-month period of clinical usage, the system has been evaluated in terms of handling, clinical benefit and total time savings. Intuitive, ubiquitous access to decision-relevant patient data and authenticated documentation were the major improvements with average total time savings of 50 min in comparison to the old system.}, author = {Krause, Andreas and Hartl, Dominik and Theis, Fabian and Stangl, Manfred and Gerauer, Klaus E. and Mehlhorn, Alexander T. }, citeulike-article-id = {1512440}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2004.04.003}, journal = {International Journal of Medical Informatics}, keywords = {decision-making, mobile, taksflow}, month = {June}, number = {5}, pages = {461--464}, posted-at = {2007-07-30 10:48:33}, priority = {2}, title = {Mobile decision support for transplantation patient data}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2004.04.003}, volume = {73}, year = {2004} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1512440 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1512440 N2 - In high-critical medical fields instant information delivery is essential. Task-flow analyses within the transplantation unit of the Technische Universitat Munchen revealed that valuable time could be saved in pre-transplantation management being able to retrieve data of organ receivers ubiquitously. Inspired by this clinical scenario, a mobile application was designed and implemented providing surgeons with decision-relevant information on potential organ receivers. It assists them in considering the prospects of forthcoming organ transplantations and facilitates decision making and documentation with regard to high security demands. The described system services three organ receiver lists and is used by the surgeons in every transplantation procedure. After a 6-month period of clinical usage, the system has been evaluated in terms of handling, clinical benefit and total time savings. Intuitive, ubiquitous access to decision-relevant patient data and authenticated documentation were the major improvements with average total time savings of 50 min in comparison to the old system. IS - 5 JF - International Journal of Medical Informatics EP - 464 TI - Mobile decision support for transplantation patient data VL - 73 SP - 461 KW - decision-making KW - mobile KW - taksflow AU - Krause, Andreas AU - Hartl, Dominik AU - Theis, Fabian AU - Stangl, Manfred AU - Gerauer, Klaus AU - Mehlhorn, Alexander PY - 2004/06/15/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2004.04.003 ER -