Journal of Human Life Engineering
Online ISSN : 2434-6349
Print ISSN : 1345-8051
Design renewal of intravenous solution bags and its verification for the contribution to medical safety
Akinori KOMATSUBARAFumiko KIDOKOROJun-Ichiro MURAYAMAFumito TUCHIYAYukitaka AOKIShin-Ichi UENISHITakashi YASUDARyusuke TUJIMOTO
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2005 Volume 6 Issue 2 Pages 28-35

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In order to prevent the mistakes at treating soft bag type intravenous solution bags, a certain company performed complete renewal of the display design of fifty-seven kinds of intravenous solution bags based on the human centred design. The requirements towards the display ware specified based on the investigation at several hospitals and manufacture staffs in the company. The design proposal based on the design principles of “exclusivity”, “clearness” and “similarity” was created incorporating with package designer's design know-how. Evaluation experiments and investigation to medical staffs were conducted. Consequently, it was expected that the proposed design will be able to prevent the treatment mistakes, and we can conclude that the design renewal based on the human centred design is useful to reduce medical accidents caused by human error.

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