An Approach to Develop Medical Devices Effective User Interfaces

4 An Approach to Develop Medical Devices Effective User Interfaces 

A six-step general approach to develop effective user interfaces for medical devices is as follows [1,2,7]  

Additional information on this approach is available in Refs. [1,7]. 

Device/Equipment User-Interface-Related Errors 

Medical devices such as ventilators, blood chemistry analyzers, patient monitors, infusion pumps, and kidney dialysis machines often have various types of user-interface design-related problems. These problems can negatively affect usability and appeal of a medical device. The following guidelines address these user-interface design problems, in turn reducing device user-interface-related errors [8]. 

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Chapter 10 is devoted to medical device usability. It covers topics such as medical device users and use environments, medical device user interfaces, an approach to develop medical devices effective user interfaces, guidelines to reduce medical device user interface-related errors, guidelines for designing hand-operated devices with respect to cumulative trauma disorder, and useful documents for improving usability of medical devices. Chapter 11 presents three important topics relating to patient safety patient safety organizations, data sources, and mathematical models for performing probabilistic patient safety analysis. 

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