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Area of Science:

  • Health Informatics
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Nursing Practice

Background:

  • Barcode medication administration (BCMA) systems aim to reduce medication errors but may introduce new risks.
  • Sociotechnical systems principles are crucial for understanding health IT impacts.
  • Interruptions are common in clinical settings and can affect cognitive processes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the impact of interruptions on nurses' visual scanning patterns during BCMA.
  • To assess how interruptions affect cognitive processing during medication administration.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized eye-tracking technology to record nurses' visual scanning patterns.
  • Compared visual scanning in a controlled, non-interruptive BCMA setting (n=25) versus a real clinical, interruptive setting (n=21).

Main Results:

  • Nurses in interruptive environments identified less task-related information per unit of time.
  • Increased information searching behavior was observed in nurses facing interruptions compared to information processing.

Conclusions:

  • Interruptions during BCMA can impair nurses' information processing efficiency.
  • Visual scanning patterns suggest cognitive load and attention shifts due to interruptions in BCMA.