SBIR Phase II: Novel Tactile Online Nursing Trainer for Clinical Breast Exams

SBIR 第二阶段：用于临床乳房检查的新型触觉在线护理培训师

• 批准号: 1230447
• 负责人: Mark Goldstein
• 金额: $ 47.92万
• 依托单位: MammaCare Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-08-15 至 2016-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1230447&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; II; Novel; Tactile

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is about a devastating medical error that affects millions of women, a breast cancer that can be felt by hand but remains unconfirmed and untreated for months or years. Known as missed, palpable breast cancer, the cause is plainly, lack of training and skill. The result is delayed diagnosis for millions of women and disease that is more extensive, painful, and costly. Poorly performed breast exams also result in unnecessarily high rates of false positive findings, which means ?detecting? disease that is not truly present. MammaCare scientists developed and standardized training and certification for nurses and physicians to perform proficient and effective breast exams. This training is taught by expert instructors who teach practitioners how to reliably detect small, suspicious breast tumors, about the size of a pea. However, this training is costly and time consuming. It cannot reach the thousands of nursing and medical students and practitioners who perform these exams. The broader impact/commercial potential of this project is to reduce the toll of breast cancer by giving all nurses who examine women the skill to detect the smallest, earliest signs of the disease. To do this we created a new skill-based teaching technology using high-fidelity breast models, computers and the Internet to provide practitioners with essential breast exam skills. The training is self-administered, inexpensive, and effective. Our colleagues at the Mayo Clinic found that nursing students and nurses were much more accurate in detecting breast tumors after the training than they were before receiving it. The potential benefits of this technology for millions of women are reduced medical errors, improved breast cancer screening accuracy, and a better chance for disease-free survival.

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目是关于一个毁灭性的医疗错误，影响了数百万妇女，乳腺癌，可以用手感觉到，但仍然未经证实和治疗数月或数年。这种被称为漏诊、触诊的乳腺癌，原因很明显，缺乏培训和技能。结果是数百万妇女的诊断延迟，疾病更加广泛，痛苦和昂贵。乳房检查不佳也会导致不必要的高假阳性率，这意味着？侦查并不真正存在的疾病。MammaCare的科学家为护士和医生开发了标准化的培训和认证，以进行熟练和有效的乳房检查。这项培训由专家讲师教授，他们教从业者如何可靠地检测豌豆大小的小型可疑乳腺肿瘤。然而，这种培训既昂贵又耗时。它无法接触到成千上万的护理和医学学生和执行这些考试的从业人员。该项目更广泛的影响/商业潜力是通过让所有检查妇女的护士掌握发现疾病最小、最早迹象的技能，减少乳腺癌的死亡人数。为此，我们创建了一种新的基于技能的教学技术，使用高保真乳房模型，计算机和互联网为从业者提供基本的乳房检查技能。培训是自我管理的，便宜，有效。我们在马约诊所的同事发现，经过培训后，护理专业的学生和护士在检测乳腺肿瘤方面比接受培训前准确得多。这项技术对数百万女性的潜在好处是减少医疗错误，提高乳腺癌筛查的准确性，以及更好的无病生存机会。