Video games designed to improve results of doctors making triage decisions
August 28, 2018 by Bob Yirka, Medical Xpress report
A team of researchers with widely diverse backgrounds from several institutions in the U.S. has developed two video games designed to help improve results by doctors making triage decisions. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group describes how the games were developed and how well they worked when tested by doctors.
As the researchers note, nearly half of all patients in the U.S. transported to a hospital for emergency medical treatment arrive at a facility that is not equipped to handle severe trauma. When that happens, doctors there must decide right away if a patient needs to be transported to a different facility or if they can be treated onsite. They note also that most people living in the U.S. will experience a diagnostic error at least once in their lifetime—one that might occur when they meet with doctors who must decide if an injury requires advanced trauma support. In this new effort, the researchers sought to improve the rate at which doctors make the right call under such conditions.
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