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A four-step adapted cognitive task analysis framework for clinical environments

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The article develops a health care setting-adapted version of cognitive task analysis, a suite of methods for studying cognitive processes such as reasoning, problem-solving, and decision-making. The framework guides users through four steps: "(1) Planning, (2) Environmental Analysis, (3) Knowledge Elicitation, and (4) Analyses and Results." It is iterative, drawing on multiple sources of information to moderate the biases of single sources, and is grounded mainly in Crandall et al.'s Working Minds guide. It aims to identify the knowledge, expertise, thought processes, procedures, actors, goals, and mental strategies underlying task completion.

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  • A four-step adapted cognitive task analysis framework for clinical environments: The article develops a health care setting-adapted version of cognitive task analysis, a suite of methods for studying cognitive processes such as reasoning, problem-solving, and decision-making. The framework guides users through four steps: "(1) Planning, (2) Environmental Analysis, (3) Knowledge Elicitation, and (4) Analyses and Results." It is iterative, drawing on multiple sources of information to moderate the biases of single sources, and is grounded mainly in Crandall et al.'s Working Minds guide. It aims to identify the knowledge, expertise, thought processes, procedures, actors, goals, and mental strategies underlying task completion. (Graham LA et al. (2023))

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  • Graham LA, Gray C, Wagner TH, Illarmo S, Hawn MT, Wren SM, Iannuzzi J, Harris AHS. (2023). Applying cognitive task analysis to health services research. Health Services Research. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6773.14106
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title A four-step adapted cognitive task analysis framework for clinical environments
description The article develops a health care setting-adapted version of cognitive task analysis, a suite of methods for studying cognitive processes such as reasoning, problem-solving, and decision-making.
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