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An Interface for Reducing Errors in Intravenous Drug Administration

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Input errors occur with drug infusion pumps when nurses or technicians incorrectly input the prescribed therapy through the control panel. Such number copying tasks are cognitively and visually demanding, errors are easily introduced and the process is often perceived as laborious. Stressful working conditions and poorly designed control panels will further add to the chance of error. An alternative scheme is proposed herein, termed intravenous prescription phrase, based on dictionary coding. Instead of copying number sequences the user copies sequences of familiar words such that the cognitive load on the user is reduced by a factor of five. The strategy is capable of detecting errors and is easy to implement.

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  1. Institute of Information Technology, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, N-0130, Oslo, Norway

    Frode Eika Sandnes

  2. Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, 10608, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

    Yo-Ping Huang

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  1. ES Department, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan City, Taiwan

    Yueh-Min Huang

  2. Engineering, National Ilan University Inst. Computer Science & Information, I-Lan, Taiwan

    Han-Chieh Chao

  3. Dept of Computer Sci. and Inf. Bao-Shan Campus, National Changhua University of Education, Changhua City, Taiwan

    Der-Jiunn Deng

  4. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul University of Science & and Technology (SeoulTech), Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park

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Sandnes, F.E., Huang, YP. (2014). An Interface for Reducing Errors in Intravenous Drug Administration. In: Huang, YM., Chao, HC., Deng, DJ., Park, J. (eds) Advanced Technologies, Embedded and Multimedia for Human-centric Computing. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 260. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7262-5_1

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