Summary
The University of Minnesota and the state of Minnesota are leaders in healthcare research and medical device design and development. Errors with these devices can lead to poor safety outcomes, making healthcare and medical devices a natural fit for HFSL's focus on safety.
Our lab has a suite of techniques to improve safety in healthcare settings, including usability testing and evaluation, observation, and survey approaches. HFSL also has an in-house patient simulator to directly measure human performance and collaborates with other medical simulation experts at the University.
One research topic investigated by the HFSL team is tactical field care, during which soldiers and combat medics administer immediate point-of-injury care to a casualty, which can critically affect the likelihood of survival. Our team has also performed an analysis of workflow and errors at retail pharmacies.
Current and Past Projects
Selected Publications
Drahos, B. A., Schwieters, K. R., Craig, C. M., Norfleet, J. E., Mazzeo, M. V., & Morris, N. L. (2024). Exploring Combat Tourniquet Application Errors and Duration Among Skilled and Novice Medical Trainees. Military Medicine, usae277, https://doi.org/10.1093/milmed/usae277
Morris, N., Craig, C., Schwieters, K., Drahos, B., Mabry, M., Floersch, E., Kessler, W. (2023). Limited training in undergarment and clothing removal techniques to expose wounds in combat care. In: Jay Kalra (eds) Emerging Technologies in Healthcare and Medicine. AHFE (2023) International Conference. AHFE Open Access, vol 116. AHFE International, USA.
Schwieters, K. R., Morris, N. L., & Craig, C. M. (2023). Default bias in medical patient simulators: Differences in availability and procedures. Human Factors in Healthcare, 3, 100040.
Craig, C. M., Schwieters, K. R., Drahos, B. A., & Morris, N. L. (2023). A pilot study on the role of experience and patient gender on MARCH treatment sequence. Military Medicine, 188(7-8), e2041-e2048.
Schwieters, K. R., Drahos, B. A., Craig, C. M., Kessler, W., Mabry, M., Norfleet, J. E., Mazzeo, M. V., & Morris, N. L. (2023). The Effect of Patient Gender and Undressing Method on Chest Exposure for the Treatment of a Gunshot Wound. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 67(1), 614-619.
Craig, C. M., Drahos, B., Schwieters, K. R., Morris, N. L., Lye, M., Kowalewski, T. M., Norfleet, J. & Mazzeo, M. V. (2022, April). Evaluating Gender Differences in Treatment of Simulated Gunshot Wounds Using a Female Retrofit. In Frontiers in Biomedical Devices (Vol. 84815, p. V001T06A004). American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Craig, C. M., Patzer, B., & Morris, N. L. (2018). Minimizing the impact of interruptions in a pediatric retail pharmacy. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 62(1), 480-484.