Title :
Cardiology guidelines at point of care
Author :
van der Putten, N. ; Gutfreund, K. ; Nelwan, S. ; Willianis, H. ; Fagan, L.
Abstract :
Many Cardiology guidelines have been widely distributed by the professional societies (European Society of Cardiology, American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, and the national Cardiology societies). In order tu improve accessibility to problemspecific content from guidelines, we have developed a set of tools, methodologies and deployment strategies that provide quick and intuitive access to the clinically relevant section of European practice guidelines at appropriute moments of care delivery. We have developed two guideline delivery systems, one as a stand-done interactive system and one integrated into a patient infomation system. Both a PDA version and a PC web based version of rhe srand-alone´system have been developed to support the cardiologist in the medical decision process. The usability of the system have been tested by staff members of the Cardiology departments in Rotterdam and Cork (Ireland) in a very structured way. The users had an overall positive impression of the system. Moreover they considered the systems as very useful.
Keywords :
Cardiology; Cardiovascular diseases; Educational institutions; Guidelines; Heart; Hospitals; Medical diagnostic imaging; Medical treatment; Professional societies; User centered design;
Conference_Titel :
Computers in Cardiology, 2004
Conference_Location :
Chicago, IL, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8927-1
DOI :
10.1109/CIC.2004.1442903