Evaluation of the effect of information integration in displays for ICU nurses on situation awareness and task completion time: A prospective randomized controlled study

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Highlights: ? Integrated information display for ICU nursing tasks across medication management, patient awareness and team communication was shown to increase nurses’ situation awareness. ? Integrated information for a broad range of tasks decreased task completion time. ? Integrated information was most beneficial for nurses’ perception and comprehension tasks.Abstract: Objective: The study measured whether nurses’ situation awareness would increase and task completion time decrease when they used an integrated information display compared to traditional displays for medication management, patient awareness and team communication.Setting: The Burn Trauma Intensive Care Unit (BTICU) at the University Hospital, University of Utah Health Science Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA….