Application of Ergonomics to Evaluating and Improving the Design of Hospital Patient Monitoring Systems

9360055 Sabri本研究解决了医院病人监控系统的人为因素方面，并通过将人体工程学应用于重症监护病房（ICU）的评估，寻求改进的手段。在第一阶段，将从人工任务和设备监测功能以及设备设置过程、监测校准和初始化方面对重症监护患者监测系统进行审查和分析。将对整个病人护理监测系统进行功能分析，以确定所需的人体工程学设计改进。这些活动将与定期操作设备的医院医生和护士合作进行。导致人为错误或反应时间过长的人体工程学问题，无论是在操作特定设备还是在医院患者监测系统的管理中，都将被识别、分类和优先考虑。将提出有关设计变更的总体建议，并为人为因素审查和改进提供工具。

9360055 Sabri This research addresses the human factors aspect of hospital patient monitoring systems and seeks the means of improvements through the application of ergonomics to the evaluation of intensive care units (ICU's). During Phase I, the intensive care patient monitoring system will be reviewed and analyzed in terms of human tasks and equipment monitoring functions and with respect to the equipment setup process, calibration and initialization of monitoring. A functional analysis of the overall patient care monitoring system will be performed to identify the needed ergonomic design improvements. These activities will be done in collaboration with hospital doctors and nurses who operate the equipment regularly. Ergonomic problems that result in human errors or excessive response time, whether in operating specific equipment or in management of the hospital patient monitoring systems, will be identified, classified, and prioritized. Overall recommendations regarding design changes and providing tools for human factor reviews and improvements will be made.