Something Wicked This Way Comes

International Journal of …, 2009

Proceedings of the 1996 ACM conference on …, 1996

JRSM open, 2016

It is recommended that patients are seen within 4 h of arrival in Acute Medical Units in English hospitals. This study explored the frequency and nature of interruptions and delays potentially affecting the duration of the Acute Medical Unit admission process and the quality of care provided. The admission process was directly observed for patients admitted to the Acute Medical Unit over four one-week periods, November 2009 to April 2011. UK teaching hospital Acute Medical Unit. Hospital staff n = 36. Patient waiting times, duration of clerking, number of interruptions and/or delays. Thirty-five doctors and one nurse practitioner were observed admitting 71 medical patients, 48/71 (68%) patients were clerked within 4 h of arrival. A delay and/or interruption affected 49/71 (69%) patients. Sixty-six interruptions were observed in 36/71 (51%) of admissions, of these 19/36 (53%) were interrupted more than once. The grade of doctor had no bearing on the frequency of interruption; however...

Australian family physician, 2008

The Threats to Australian Patient Safety (TAPS) Study collected 648 anonymous reports about threats to patient safety from a representative random sample of Australian general practitioners. These contained any events the GPs felt should not have happened, and would not want to happen again, regardless of who was at fault or the outcome of the event. This series of articles presents clinical lessons resulting from the TAPS study.

Human-Computer Interaction, 1998

2020

This presentation reports on three use cases for a patient-controlled intervention, MP50, to improve workflows in Medicine: 1. Urgent admission, 2. Registration, and 3. Covid-19. The intervention entails the online preparation of patients before contact with health care workers. The intervention improves the appointment by providing medical information on a silver platter, handoff duration, and mass admissions processing. In the Netherlands, the time saved is equivalent to over 5000 full-time physicians each year, which is about 50% of the number needed to increase average appointment time to the minimum for best care, from 10 to 20 minutes.

International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2007

Empirical Musicology Review, 2015

Recent research has provided evidence that musical interaction can promote empathy. Yet little is known about the underlying intrapersonal and social psychological processes that are involved when this occurs. For example, which types of music increase empathy and which types decrease it; what role, if any, does empathy play in determining individual differences in musical preference, perception, and performance; or, how do these psychological underpinnings help explain the musical experiences of people with autism spectrum conditions (ASC). To address these questions we employ the Empathizing–Systemizing (E-S) theory as a fruitful framework in which to understand these music-related phenomena. Specifically, we explore how individual differences in musical preference, perception, and performance can be explained by E-S theory. We provide examples from open-ended descriptions of strong musical experiences to demonstrate the ways in which empathy and music inter-relate. Importantly, w...