A Comparison of Manual and Electronic Status Boards in the Emergency Department: What's Gained and What's Lost?
Robert L. Wears, Shawna J. Perry, Marc J. Shapiro, Christopher Beach, Pat Croskerry, Ravi S. Behara · Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting · 2003
Emergency departments (EDs) are complex, high tempo, high risk work environments that require dynamic sharing of information across a group of caregivers. EDs commonly use status boards as tools to facilitate this sharing. Manual status boards have been replaced in some institutions by electronic ones, for a variety of reasons. We contrast the use of manual and electronic status boards in 4 different EDs to assess the gains and losses for workers.