Usability Testing of Medical Devices (Hardcover)

To paraphrase a popular saying, usability testing should be done early and often. However, it doesn’t have to be an onerous process. Informative, practical, and engaging, Usability Testing of Medical Devices provides a simple, easy to implement general understanding of usability testing. It offers a general understanding of usability testing and reviews key concepts, highlighting the challenges of validating that protects against dangerous errors that could lead to patient injury and death.

The book has been carefully designed to be concise and visually, easily read in one sitting or perused from one section to another as needed It begins with a review of human factors engineering and how usability testing fits in, and then discusses the government regulations and industry standards that have motivated many medical device manufacturers to conduct usability tests. It then covers the nitty-gritty of planning, conducting, and reporting the results of a usability test, making the process as smooth and painless as possible for the development team, and therefore making the medical devices they develop as safe, effective, and appealing as possible.

As you read the book, keep in mind that, like snowflakes, each usability test is unique. And while 100 usability specialists working independently might take 100 different approaches to testing, albeit with considerable methodological overlap, there would also be meaningful differences that the practitioners would energetically defend as the best given the circumstances. To make your testing process easier, the authors, seasoned human factors specialists who have conducted thousands of test sessions involving medical devices used by physicians, nurses, therapists, technicians, and patients, have painstakingly put together an informative, practical, and engaging handbook for conducting usability tests of medical devices.

為了重述一句流行的說法，可用性測試應該早期且頻繁進行。然而，這並不需要是一個繁瑣的過程。《醫療設備的可用性測試》提供了一個簡單、易於實施的可用性測試的一般理解，內容豐富、實用且引人入勝。它提供了可用性測試的一般理解，並回顧了關鍵概念，強調了驗證的挑戰，以防止可能導致患者受傷和死亡的危險錯誤。

這本書經過精心設計，簡潔易讀，可以一次閱讀完畢，或根據需要從一節瀏覽到另一節。它首先回顧了人因工程學以及可用性測試的相關性，然後討論了政府法規和行業標準，這些法規和標準促使許多醫療設備製造商進行可用性測試。然後，它涵蓋了可用性測試的計劃、執行和報告的細節，使開發團隊的過程盡可能順暢和無痛，從而使他們開發的醫療設備盡可能安全、有效和吸引人。

在閱讀本書時，請記住，就像雪花一樣，每個可用性測試都是獨特的。而且，雖然100位獨立工作的可用性專家可能會以100種不同的方式進行測試，儘管方法上有相當大的重疊，但也會有有意義的差異，從而使從業人員能夠積極地為最佳解決方案辯護。為了使您的測試過程更加容易，作者們是經驗豐富的人因專家，他們已經進行了數千次涉及醫生、護士、治療師、技術人員和患者使用的醫療設備的測試會議，他們費盡心思地編寫了一本有關進行醫療設備可用性測試的信息豐富、實用且引人入勝的手冊。