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There are pitfalls in triage statistics we can help you avoid
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Analysis & Recommendations
We create a system map of your current practices. Using this we identify where avoidable delays, missed opportunities to redirect the patient more appropriately and other suboptimal elements are occurring within your present system. Combination of apparently minor changes can amount to surprising overall benefits.
Prototyping New Ideas
We build simple prototypes to test out new ideas. This helps you assess whether an idea is on the right track and allows potential users to 'have a go' then have their say. This tests key potential obstacles in user acceptance before major expenditure. Important proof of concept can also be achieved and clearly demonstrated.
Triage & Streaming Tests
Are your department's triage methods or streaming of patients as good as you think they are? Having adapted paper-based methods for EPR, systems need thorough reappraisal to see how effective they really are. Statistical analyses wrongly applied are prevalent in the literature and make over-favourable claims about various methods.
Design for Stress
EDs are particularly stressful environments and many software designs add to the problem. Systems for use in EDs need special attention to how brains respond to distraction, stress, overcrowded and sometimes unfamiliar conditions. Few software designers have experienced these conditions. Obtain an independent review.