Work

Multidisciplinary Care for Facial Paralysis Patients

Year: 2018

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Patient-clinician communication is a significant topic in CSCW and health informatics studies, but little attention has been given to how clinicians collaborate with each other to provide care services. Our goal for this study is to understand how clinicians with different roles collaborate with each other to help facial paralysis patients in their recovery processes. We conducted 19 clinical observations and 4 clinician interviews in the Neurosurgery department at Hershey Medical Center. We describe activities and time expenditures during visitations via the construction of a workflow model; we also discuss current clinician pain points regarding service provision and potential solutions to some of the pain points.

Source: ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)

DOI: 10.1145/3272973.3274052

Authors: Haining Zhu, John M. Carroll

Institution: Pennsylvania State University

Language: English

Topic: Facial Nerve Paralysis Treatment and Research

Subfield: Neurology

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: bronze

Funder: National Science Foundation