Abstract: Limb amputation can cause severe functional disability for the performance of activities of daily living (ADLs). Amputees use prosthetic devices on a regular basis to perform ADLs. Prosthetic devices require substantial amount of cognitive resources, which can lead to device rejection. However, prior research was mainly focused on measuring physical performance of using prosthetic...

The COVID-19 pandemic has created new opportunities to develop and deploy high-impact analytics to combat severe resource shortages and a rapidly evolving healthcare ecosystem. Nursing organizations suffered both during and in the aftermath of the pandemic from excess demand for and diminishing supply of nurses. The nurse shortage was caused in part by nurses leaving...

Adverse events are the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in surgery, and approximately 40% of those events are judged to be preventable. Studies reviewing surgical adverse events found that cognitive factors such as cognitive workload and non-technical skills (e.g., situation awareness, communication, decision-making, and teamwork) contributed to more than half of the adverse events....