NDLI: Personalized emergency medical assistance for disabled people

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Chittaro, Luca Carchietti, Elio De Marco, Luca Zampa, Agosti
Copyright Year	2010
Abstract	Being able to promptly and accurately choose a proper course of action in the field is a crucial aspect of emergency response. For this reason, emergency medical services (EMS) rely on well established procedures that apply to the most frequent cases first responders encounter in their practice, but do not include special cases concerning (sensory, motor or cognitive) disabled persons. In these cases, first responders may end up applying suboptimal or possibly wrong procedures or lose precious time trying to adapt on-the-fly to the special case. This paper proposes both (i) a detailed patient model for EMS that can account for peculiar aspects of the many existing disabilities and (ii) an adaptive information system called PRESYDIUM (Personalized Emergency System for Disabled Humans) that provides tailored instructions in the field for helping medical first responders in dealing with disabled persons. More precisely, we will illustrate and discuss: (i) the design and development process of PRESYDIUM, (ii) the patient model, which is partly based on the ICF (International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health) standard proposed by the World Health Organization, (iii) the knowledge base used by the system to provide tailored instructions to medical first responders, (iv) the Web-based architecture of the system, (v) the different interfaces—including one for mobile devices—the system provides to enable all the identified stakeholders (disabled persons, their families, clinicians, EMS call center operators, medical first responders) to easily access and possibly provide data to the system, (vi) the evaluation of the validity of the patient model and of the system usability which has been conducted with end users.
Starting Page	407
Ending Page	440
Page Count	34
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09241868
Journal	User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction
Volume Number	21
Issue Number	4-5
e-ISSN	15731391
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2011-01-04
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Personalized e-health information systems Patient models Disabled patients First responders Emergency medical services Tailored instructions Tailored decision support Knowledge-based systems Web-based systems Mobile applications Multimedia Information Systems Management of Computing and Information Systems User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Education Human-Computer Interaction Computer Science Applications

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