Brainwise with the Self-portrait app: Providing child patients with a meaningful translation of their test-results

This report delves into the challenging process of translating complex tests from the Child Brain Lab into a design that is both accessible and engaging for children. The Child Brain Lab, part of the Erasmus MC Sophia Children’s Hospital, conducts research on brain development to gain a better understanding of the course of brain disorders and...

Speculating DATA-DRIVEN SHARED Decision Making in The Future of healthcare: Designing a data-driven Decision Support Tool (DST) for Oncology (Melanoma)

Navigating consequential decisions is a difficult task in and of itself, especially when they have a significant impact on one's life. This is especially true in the complex world of healthcare, where the importance of choices is magnified. The complexities of these issues can make it difficult for patients and their loved ones to effectively...

Face it; a visual fore-glimpse in AR for facial skin cancer patients' surgery?

Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the Netherlands, often caused by having too much exposure to UV radiation from the sun. An effect of this is that the part of the body that is exposed the most to the sun is also the body part where skin cancer is seen more often; the head. When the skin cancer gets removed surgically, the defect...

Social relations and diabetes: Creating a support system for people with diabetes

People with diabetes often show symptoms heavily associated with depression, but these symptoms are often caused by the burden of daily diabetes management. The negative feelings caused by this burden are defined as "diabetes burnout''. Some of these negative feelings are caused by social issues. People with diabetes often resort to online...

The bigger picture of shared decision making: A service design perspective using the care path of locally advanced pancreatic cancer as a case

Purpose: Solutions to improve the implementation of shared decision making (SDM) in oncology often focus on the consultation, with limited effects. In this study, we used a service design perspective on the care path of locally advanced pancreatic cancer (LAPC). We aimed to understand how experiences of patients, their significant others, and...

LIVEsense: A Continuous and Collaborative Goal Setting System using Sensor Data for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) Patients

This report is the result of a master thesis project that finalizes 2 years of Strategic Product Design master program at the Industrial Design Engineering faculty. The project is about designing a data-informed clinical care process for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) patient. Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) is a...

A ship collision avoidance system for human-machine cooperation during collision avoidance

Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) attract increasing attention in recent years. Researchers aim at developing fully autonomous systems that replace the role of human operators. Studies either focus on supporting conflict/collision detection (for manned ships) or solving conflict automatically (for unmanned ships). The cooperation...

Rethinking causality, complexity and evidence for the unique patient: A causehealth resource for healthcare professionals and the clinical encounter

This open access book is a unique resource for health professionals who are interested in understanding the philosophical foundations of their daily practice. It provides tools for untangling the motivations and rationality behind the way medicine and healthcare is studied, evaluated and practiced. In particular, it illustrates the impact...

Deciding with heart: Supporting shared decision making process about life-prolonging treatments in patients with advanced heart failure

Shared decision making is a process in which healthcare professionals and patients decide together on the course of the treatment. Shared decision making enables evidence and patients’ preferences to be taken into account. It improves the patient’s knowledge, understanding and patient-healthcare providers communication. However, various barriers...

Personalising patient education for lung cancer patients

Personalising patient education is an important aspect that is needed for patients to become active in decision making and their treatment. Standardised methods are not enough and personalisation can make an improvement in healthcare by focussing more on the patient. This report focusses on patient education at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital...

Door mijn ogen: Treasuring quality of life with frail elderly

Frail elderly have an increased risk to get involved with care. Shared decision making can help ensure that this care contributes to the elderly´s quality of life, instead of only extending life. To enable shared decision making, clear communication between the elderly and care professionals is needed, however, this communication is especially...

Design and evaluation of a BDI-based Virtual Patient for the Education of Shared Decision Making

On a regular basis doctors need to hold difficult conversations with patients. In shared decision making (SDM) conversations patients and doctors work together to get to a medical decision by talking about the patients preferences and values and the possible options and their respective risks and benefits. Good communication through the use of...

Shared Decision Making; Designing for Cancer Care

What role patients should assume in medical decision making is an issue that has stimulated much debate. A wide variety of opinions exist, ranging from the view that patients should assume at least some responsibility for their own treatment, to the position that it is unwise to encourage such participation because patients do not have the...

Facilitating and supporting patients in decision-making about healthcare professionals’ access to their medical data

The transfer of a patient's medical data between healthcare professionals is sometimes needed to take relevant aspects of the patient's health into account to offer fitting care for the specific patient. A patient's medical data is stored in the systems of the different healthcare professionals that treat or have treated the patient, thus...

How health care professionals evaluate a digital intervention to improve medication adherence: Qualitative exploratory study

Background: Medication nonadherence poses a serious and a hard-to-tackle problem for many chronic diseases. Electronic health (eHealth) apps that foster patient engagement and shared decision making (SDM) may be a novel approach to improve medication adherence.<br/><br/>Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the perspective of...

The potential of service design for improving the implementation of shared decision-making

This paper addresses the potential contribution of service design for improving the implementation of shared decision-making in healthcare. The iterative approach of design research is compared with the more linear, (social) scientific approaches often seen in health services research. Five foundational principles of service design are explored...

Designing for Shared Decision Making