Applying Cognitive Task Analysis to Health Services Research.

A better understanding of the cognitive processes that underly clinical tasks is key to developing healthcare technology and decision-support tools that will have a meaningful impact on processes of care and patient outcomes. Our adapted framework offers a more rigorous and detailed method for identifying task-related cognitive processes in implementation studies and quality improvement. Our adaptation of this underutilized qualitative research method may be helpful to other researchers and inform future research in health services research. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.