Momtahan Kathryn, Burns Catherine
Heart Institute, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
J Healthc Inf Manag. 2004 Fall;18(4):74-82.
Today's nursing environment is complex, with many sources of data that are often poorly displayed. Ecological interface design (EID) is a systematic approach to designing interfaces to complex systems. EID has been used to design interfaces for aviation displays, power plant monitoring and control, human hemodynamic monitoring, anesthesia monitoring, and neonatal intensive care monitoring and diagnosis. EID makes critical relationships easily visible, eliminating the mental workload of integrating, calculating, or remembering multiple values. This paper reviews past experimental studies of EID in healthcare applications and discusses the application of EID to a decision-support tool for diabetic patients using personal digital assistants. The authors also discuss other contributions that EID could make to the nursing process in the areas of physiological monitoring, decision support, database design, and the measurement and analysis of nurse-sensitive outcomes, including patient safety outcomes.
当今的护理环境复杂，存在许多数据来源，而这些数据往往显示不佳。生态界面设计（EID）是一种用于设计复杂系统界面的系统方法。EID已被用于设计航空显示器、发电厂监测与控制、人体血液动力学监测、麻醉监测以及新生儿重症监护监测与诊断等方面的界面。EID使关键关系易于显现，消除了整合、计算或记忆多个值的脑力负担。本文回顾了过去在医疗保健应用中对EID的实验研究，并讨论了EID在使用个人数字助理的糖尿病患者决策支持工具中的应用。作者还讨论了EID在生理监测、决策支持、数据库设计以及护士敏感结局（包括患者安全结局）的测量与分析等领域对护理过程可能做出的其他贡献。
