Safe, Comfortable, Attractive, and Easy to Use Improving the Usability of Home Medical Devices (1996) / Chapter Skim
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They wouIcl like manufacturers and suppliers to listen to their complaints and suggestions. Patients and caregivers also want the au tonomy to choose home care, which means, in essence, that some people will make poor or irresponsible decisions in using home medical equipment (e.g., emphysema patients who smoke while taking oxygen)
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Maintaining a strong fecleral role in product safety is in the interest of FDA regulators, who would lose their jobs if their agency's mission was diminished. Human factors specialists havethe knowlecigeto improvethe usability, safety, and comfort of home medical equipment.
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Finally, the major constituencies have not addressed directly some of the fundamental ethical issuesthat underlie decisions about human factors and home medical equipment. How much autonomy should patients and caregivers have to make choices?
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The unique demands that home medical equipment places on home care patients and caregivers have not been extensively studied and present an important set of new issues for human factors research. Patients and caregivers are a substantially different population from the groups for which existing cognitive, perceptual-motor, and biomechanical standards have been devised.
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- Bernie Lieb/er, H ~ MA - Marcia Nusgart, H ~ MA Scott Remes, CAIRE Kathy Su//ivan, Baxter Ju/ie Anne Zawisza, H ~ MA 9:40 - 10:30 DEVICE SUPPLIERS: Information on Use/Misuse of H ME and Needs of Users. Taney Hami//, Director, Third Party Payor Program, National Association for Medical Equipment Suppliers Tom French, Homedco 10:30- 10:45 BREAK 10:45 - 1 1:15 CAREGIVERS/PROVIDERS OF HOME HEALTH CARE - Caro/ Smith, School of Nursing, University of Kansas 1 1:1 5 - 1 1:45 FAMILY CAREGIVER ADVOCACY - Suzanne Mintz, President, National Family Caregivers Association 27
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1 1 45 -1 2 1 5 POTENTIAL CONTRIBUTIONS FROM HUMAN FACTORS - Michae/ Wik/und, American Institutes for Research 12 15- 1 15 LUNCH in Lecture Room 1 1 5 - 1 45 BfOETHICAL PERSPECTIVE - Arthur Cap/an, Director, Centerfor Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania Medical School 1 45 - 2 1 5 H U MAN FACTORS PROB LEMS I N D EVICE TESTI NG - Jonathan Gaev, Director, Health Devices Group, ECR! 2 15 - 3 15 MEDICAL DEVICES DEVELOPMENT AND USE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF FDA'S CENTER FOR DEVICES AND RADIOLOG ICAL H EALTH Marilyn Sue Bogner Systems Approach to Design Char/es Sawyer HME Examples and Problems Peter Carstensen Human Factors Standards as Aids to HME Design 315-330 BREAK 330-415 WRAP-UP - Members, Committee on Human Factors with Interaction from Participants on Next Steps 28 SAFE, COMFORTABLE, ATTRACTIVE, AND EASY TO USE
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Kathy Neill, Georgetown University School of Nursing /MPROV/NG THE USAB/~/TY OF HOME MEDICAL DEVICES 29
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Theresa Noonan, National Research Council Nancy Presly, Food and Drug Administration (SurveilIance and Biometrics) Lou Quatrano, National Center for Rehabilitation Research John Rachlin, Food and Drug Administration (Health and Industry Programs)
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