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Teleconsultation Using Mobile Phones for Diagnosis and Acute Care of Burn Injuries Among Emergency Physicians: Mixed-Methods Study
BACKGROUND: The referral process in acute care remains challenging in many areas including burn care. Mobile phone apps designed explicitly for medical referrals and consultations could streamline the referral process by using structured templates and integrating features specific to different speci...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6231743/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30341047 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/11076 |
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author | Klingberg, Anders Wallis, Lee Alan Hasselberg, Marie Yen, Po-Yin Fritzell, Sara Caroline |
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description | BACKGROUND: The referral process in acute care remains challenging in many areas including burn care. Mobile phone apps designed explicitly for medical referrals and consultations could streamline the referral process by using structured templates and integrating features specific to different specialties. However, as these apps are competing with commercial chat services, usability becomes a crucial factor for successful uptake. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to assess the usability of a mobile phone app for remote consultations and referrals of burn injuries. METHODS: A total of 24 emergency doctors and 4 burns consultants were recruited for the study. A mixed-methods approach was used including a usability questionnaire and a think-aloud interview. Think-aloud sessions were video-recorded, and content analysis was undertaken with predefined codes relating to the following 3 themes: ease of use, usefulness of content, and technology-induced errors. RESULTS: The users perceived the app to be easy to use and useful, but some problems were identified. Issues relating to usability were associated with navigation, such as scrolling and zooming. Users also had problems in understanding the meaning of some icons and terminologies. Sometimes, some users felt limited by predefined options, and they wanted to be able to freely express their clinical findings. CONCLUSIONS: We found that users faced problems mainly with navigation when the app did not work in the same way as the other apps that were frequently used. Our study also resonates with previous findings that when using standardized templates, the systems should also allow the user to express their clinical findings in their own words. |
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spelling | pubmed-62317432018-12-03 Teleconsultation Using Mobile Phones for Diagnosis and Acute Care of Burn Injuries Among Emergency Physicians: Mixed-Methods Study Klingberg, Anders Wallis, Lee Alan Hasselberg, Marie Yen, Po-Yin Fritzell, Sara Caroline JMIR Mhealth Uhealth Original Paper BACKGROUND: The referral process in acute care remains challenging in many areas including burn care. Mobile phone apps designed explicitly for medical referrals and consultations could streamline the referral process by using structured templates and integrating features specific to different specialties. However, as these apps are competing with commercial chat services, usability becomes a crucial factor for successful uptake. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to assess the usability of a mobile phone app for remote consultations and referrals of burn injuries. METHODS: A total of 24 emergency doctors and 4 burns consultants were recruited for the study. A mixed-methods approach was used including a usability questionnaire and a think-aloud interview. Think-aloud sessions were video-recorded, and content analysis was undertaken with predefined codes relating to the following 3 themes: ease of use, usefulness of content, and technology-induced errors. RESULTS: The users perceived the app to be easy to use and useful, but some problems were identified. Issues relating to usability were associated with navigation, such as scrolling and zooming. Users also had problems in understanding the meaning of some icons and terminologies. Sometimes, some users felt limited by predefined options, and they wanted to be able to freely express their clinical findings. CONCLUSIONS: We found that users faced problems mainly with navigation when the app did not work in the same way as the other apps that were frequently used. Our study also resonates with previous findings that when using standardized templates, the systems should also allow the user to express their clinical findings in their own words. JMIR Publications 2018-10-19 /pmc/articles/PMC6231743/ /pubmed/30341047 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/11076 Text en ©Anders Klingberg, Lee Alan Wallis, Marie Hasselberg, Po-Yin Yen, Sara Caroline Fritzell. Originally published in JMIR Mhealth and Uhealth (http://mhealth.jmir.org), 19.10.2018. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in JMIR mhealth and uhealth, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on http://mhealth.jmir.org/, as well as this copyright and license information must be included. |
spellingShingle | Original Paper Klingberg, Anders Wallis, Lee Alan Hasselberg, Marie Yen, Po-Yin Fritzell, Sara Caroline Teleconsultation Using Mobile Phones for Diagnosis and Acute Care of Burn Injuries Among Emergency Physicians: Mixed-Methods Study |
title | Teleconsultation Using Mobile Phones for Diagnosis and Acute Care of Burn Injuries Among Emergency Physicians: Mixed-Methods Study |
title_full | Teleconsultation Using Mobile Phones for Diagnosis and Acute Care of Burn Injuries Among Emergency Physicians: Mixed-Methods Study |
title_fullStr | Teleconsultation Using Mobile Phones for Diagnosis and Acute Care of Burn Injuries Among Emergency Physicians: Mixed-Methods Study |
title_full_unstemmed | Teleconsultation Using Mobile Phones for Diagnosis and Acute Care of Burn Injuries Among Emergency Physicians: Mixed-Methods Study |
title_short | Teleconsultation Using Mobile Phones for Diagnosis and Acute Care of Burn Injuries Among Emergency Physicians: Mixed-Methods Study |
title_sort | teleconsultation using mobile phones for diagnosis and acute care of burn injuries among emergency physicians: mixed-methods study |
topic | Original Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6231743/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30341047 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/11076 |
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