IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/sprchp/978-3-319-12178-9_18.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Usability Assessment of Medical Devices from a User Perspective: Results of a Focus Group Discussion

In: Challenges and Opportunities in Health Care Management

Author

Listed:
  • Daniel Schubert

    (Technische Universität Chemnitz, Chemnitz University of Technologie)

  • Jens Mühlstedt

    (Technische Universität Chemnitz, Chemnitz University of Technologie)

  • Angelika C. Bullinger

    (Technische Universität Chemnitz, Chemnitz University of Technologie)

Abstract

Due to poor usability of medical devices adverse events occur. To lay foundations to prevent such occurrences we present and discuss usability evaluation methods for medical devices from a theoretical perspective. Additionally, results from a focus group discussion are elaborated which targeted the identification of appropriate usability methods. Combining literature and empirical data, we suggest an assembling of heuristic evaluation and a supplementary usability questionnaire to evaluate medical devices. Applying this combined instrument, we expect a reduction of adverse events in medical treatment.

Suggested Citation

  • Daniel Schubert & Jens Mühlstedt & Angelika C. Bullinger, 2015. "Usability Assessment of Medical Devices from a User Perspective: Results of a Focus Group Discussion," Springer Books, in: Sebastian Gurtner & Katja Soyez (ed.), Challenges and Opportunities in Health Care Management, edition 127, pages 223-235, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-319-12178-9_18
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-12178-9_18
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-319-12178-9_18. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.