Healthcare worker mental models of patient care tasks in the context of infection prevention and control.
Joel M MummaJessica R Howard-AndersonJill S MorganKevin SchinkMarisa J WheatleyColleen S KraftMorgan A LaneNoah H KaufmanOluwateniola AyeniErik A BrownswordJesse T JacobPublished in: Infection control and hospital epidemiology (2021)
For a patient requiring only standard precautions, different populations of HCWs have similar mental models of how various patient care tasks relate to IPC. Techniques for eliciting mental models open new avenues for understanding and ultimately modifying the cognitive determinants of IPC behaviors.