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Human-Centered Participatory Co-design of a Dosimetry-Quality Assurance Checklist in an Academic Cancer Center

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Digital Human Modeling and Applications in Health, Safety, Ergonomics and Risk Management. Health, Operations Management, and Design (HCII 2022)

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Most radiation oncology centers use in-house quality assurance (QA) checklists to ensure patient safety. Unfortunately, most of these QA checklists are often implemented in clinical settings without formal usability evaluation. We applied a human-centered participatory co-design framework to identify design changes to a dosimetry QA checklist (DQC) currently deployed in an academic radiation oncology center and develop a user-focused functional prototype of an enhanced DQC. We found that the human-centered participatory co-design framework used in this study holds promise in improving the usability of QA checklists currently deployed in clinical settings.

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  1. Carolina Health Informatics Program, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

    Karthik Adapa & Lukasz Mazur

  2. Department of Radiation Oncology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

    Karthik Adapa, Gregg Tracton, Ross McGurk, John Dooley, Shiva Das & Lukasz Mazur

  3. Ben Allegretti Consulting, Inc., Stafford, VA, USA

    Prithima Mosaly & Lukasz Mazur

  4. School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

    Fei Yu

  5. Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

    Carlton Moore

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Adapa, K. et al. (2022). Human-Centered Participatory Co-design of a Dosimetry-Quality Assurance Checklist in an Academic Cancer Center. In: Duffy, V.G. (eds) Digital Human Modeling and Applications in Health, Safety, Ergonomics and Risk Management. Health, Operations Management, and Design. HCII 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13320. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06018-2_1

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