JOURNAL ARTICLE · EDITORIAL BRIEF
Implementation and Evaluation of the Stroke Triage App Among Paramedics in Prehospital Emergency Care: Sequential Mixed Methods Study
Femke Kremers; Ellen Hu; Milou Silkens; Naomi de Ruijter; Ruben M. van de Wijdeven; Esmee Venema; Henk Kerkhoff; Sandra Sülz; Bob Roozenbeek; PRESTO-2 Investigators
Journal of Medical Internet Research · 3 November 2026
The finding or development
Paramedics generally accepted the app, yet urgent care, repeated logins and poor workflow fit hindered routine use. Participants requested less duplicate data entry and clearer explanations of recommendations.
What supports it
Published mixed-methods implementation study: usage logs, 76 survey respondents and nine interviews.
Reviewed: Publisher methods, results, discussion and limitations reviewed 5 November 2026; appendices and raw data not reviewed.
Why it matters for design
A practical case for evaluating how a service fits real work, beyond whether its interface is understandable.
Read with this in mind
Self-selection favoured active users; nonusers were poorly represented. Two urban regions limit transferability. Proposed improvements were not tested here, and reported benefits do not establish better patient outcomes.
Original source
Opens the publisher outside this reading room. If nothing opens, copy the source address below.
Reference tools · Paperpile & more
Using Paperpile? Open the original source above, then use the Paperpile extension to save it to your library. Its inline buttons appear on supported websites.
Paperpile’s browser extension guide (opens an external website)Or download the original reference and import the file into Paperpile, Zotero or EndNote. Check the details against the source before citing.
Citation details are requested from Crossref when you download. The file contains a reference, not the full paper.
DOI: 10.2196/105987
This is the complete UX Observatory brief, not the publisher’s full article. Follow the original source to read the work.