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The Process By Which Physicians Extract Information From Electronic Progress Notes During Handoffs, Brian D. Amster
The Process By Which Physicians Extract Information From Electronic Progress Notes During Handoffs, Brian D. Amster
Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014
A handoff requires that the responsibility for patient patient’s care is transferred from one healthcare professional to another. The goals of this research were to identify, evaluate, and use analytical methods to describe how physicians (n=10) extracted information from electronic progress notes, one important source of information used during handoffs. Participants also verbally summarized the notes as they would during handoffs. Six methods were used to analyze how participants read progress notes, each uniquely contributing to our understanding of physicians’ visual attention patterns during this process. The participants focused their visual attention on the Impression and Plan section of the …