title: Development and comparison of user acceptance of advanced comprehensive triage PDA support system with a traditional terminal alternative system.
abstract: An advanced PDA support system for the triage was designed to evaluate users inverted exclamation mark | acceptance of this system compared with a traditional terminal system. Davis inverted exclamation mark | Technology Acceptance Model was used to evaluate users inverted exclamation mark | acceptance. All 72 ER nurses in a 2700-bed medical center were invited for the study. The results showed that the PDA system was easier to operate than the terminal one, but had worse interface. The subjects showed significantly greater willingness to accept the terminal system instead of the PDA system. The comparative acceptance of PDA, compared with that of the old system, might still be marginally too low if its interface couldn inverted exclamation mark |t be improved or no other unique practical benefits could be verified.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Health Informatics and Decision Making, National Yang-Mang University, Taipei, Taiwan/ROC.
authors.forename: Polun
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: Yuann-Meei
authors.initials: YM
authors.lastname: Tzeng
authors.forename: Shiao-Chi
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Ying-Yang
authors.initials: YY
authors.lastname: Sang
authors.forename: Shih-Shin
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001292:Attitude to Computers; D016288:Computer Terminals; D034201:Computers, Handheld; D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D006801:Humans; D019095:Point-of-Care Systems; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014218:Triage / Q000379:methods*; D014584:User-Computer Interface