From Text to Treatment: How Medical Discharge Letters Are Used as a Key Artifact for Managing Patient Care
Zakreuskaya A, Buschek D, Mackay WE, Avellino I, Dove G, Eskofier B (2024)
Publication Type: Conference contribution
Publication year: 2024
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
Pages Range: 99-109
Conference Proceedings Title: ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
Event location: Karlsruhe, DEU
ISBN: 9798400709982
Abstract
Hospital physicians must navigate through vast quantities of patient information represented in text-based reports. Although intended to improve patient care, their effectiveness hinges on each physician's ability to successfully handle and interpret fragmented information from diverse sources. The increasing automation of text interactions are a potential support but are still at the early phase of implementation in real-world scenarios. We observed 144 hours of clinical shifts in a German internal medicine hospital and collected structured field notes on physicians' current practices with text-based reports to enrich existing understanding of the requirements for including automation to clinical text. We identified medical discharge letters as most frequently consulted text document and a qualitative analysis of the field notes revealed that this document acts as a key artifact that serves different roles and purposes in the hospitalization of a patient. Based on our findings we discuss possible loss of these nuanced uses through automation and propose design implications for medical text reports.
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Université Paris-Saclay
France (FR)
Universität Bayreuth
Germany (DE)
University of Paris 6 - Pierre et Marie Curie / Université Paris VI Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC)
France (FR)
New York University (NYU)
United States (USA) (US)
France (FR)
Universität Bayreuth
Germany (DE)
University of Paris 6 - Pierre et Marie Curie / Université Paris VI Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC)
France (FR)
New York University (NYU)
United States (USA) (US)
How to cite
APA:
Zakreuskaya, A., Buschek, D., Mackay, W.E., Avellino, I., Dove, G., & Eskofier, B. (2024). From Text to Treatment: How Medical Discharge Letters Are Used as a Key Artifact for Managing Patient Care. In ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (pp. 99-109). Karlsruhe, DEU: Association for Computing Machinery.
MLA:
Zakreuskaya, Anastasiya, et al. "From Text to Treatment: How Medical Discharge Letters Are Used as a Key Artifact for Managing Patient Care." Proceedings of the 2024 Mensch und Computer, MuC 2024, Karlsruhe, DEU Association for Computing Machinery, 2024. 99-109.
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