Yuval Bitan - list of publications


Publications in scientific journals
  1. Meyer, J., Bitan, Y. and Shinar, D. (1995). Displaying a boundary in graphic and symbolic "Wait" displays: Duration estimates and users' preferences. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 7 (3), 273 - 290. 

  2. Meyer, J., Bitan, Y. and Shinar, D. (1996). Duration estimates and users' preferences in Human-Computer Interaction. Ergonomics, 39 (1), 46 - 60. 

  3. Meyer, J. and Bitan, Y. (2002). Why Better Operators Receive Worse Warnings. Human Factors, 44 (3), 343–353.

  4. Bitan, Y., Meyer, J., Shinar, D. and Zmora, E. (2004). Nurses’ reactions to alarms in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Cognition, Technology & Work, 6, 239-246.

  5. Nunnally M.E. and Bitan Y. (2006). Time to Get Off this Pig’s Back? Journal of Patient Safety. 2(3): 124-131. 

  6. Bitan, Y. and Meyer, J. (2007). Self-initiated and respondent actions in a simulated control task. Ergonomics, 50(5), 763-788. 

  7. Bitan, Y. and Nunnally M.E. (2007). Can a log of infusion device events be used to understand infusion accidents? Journal of Patient Safety, 3(4), 208-213. 

  8. Nemeth C, Nunnally E, Bitan Y, Nunnally S, Cook RI. (2009). Between choice and chance: The role of human factors in acute care equipment decisions. Journal of Patient Safety, 5(2), 114-121.

  9. Porat, N., Bitan, Y., Shefi, D., Donchin, Y. and Rozenbaum, H. (2009). Use of colour-coded labels (CCLs) for intravenous high risk medications and lines to improve patient safety. Quality and Safety in Health Care, 18, 505-509. 

  10. Vashitz G., Nunnally ME., Bitan Y., Parmet Y., O'Connor MF., Cook RI. (2011). Making sense of disease in medication reconciliation. Cognition, Technology & Work, 13(2), 151-158. 

  11. Bitan, Y., O'Connor MF. (2012), Correlating data from different sensors to increase the positive predictive value of alarms: an empiric assessment. F1000 Research, November (8). 

  12. Vashitz G, Nunnally ME, Bitan Y, Parmet Y, O'Connor MF, Cook RI. (2013). How do clinicians reconcile conditions and medications? The cognitive context of medication reconciliation. Cognition, Technology & Work, 15(1), 109-116. 
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  13. DeLaurentis, P. C., Hsu, K. Y., De la Armenta, A. I. H., and Bitan, Y. (2018). Prevalence of wireless smart infusion pump drug library update delays. American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, 75, 509-513. 

  14. Hsu, K. Y., DeLaurentis, P. C., Bitan, Y., Degnan, D. D., and Yih, Y. (2019).  Unintended Patient Safety Risks Due to Wireless Smart Infusion Pump Library Update Delays. Journal of Patient Safety, 15(1):e8-e14.

  15. Bitan Y., Moran P. and Harris J. (2019). Evaluating safety culture changes over time with the EMS-SAQ survey. Australasian Journal of Paramedicine, 16 (3).

  16. Hsu, K. Y., DeLaurentis, P. C., Yih, Y., and Bitan, Y. (2019). Tracking the Progress of Infusion Pump Drug Library Updates— a data-driven analysis of pump update delays. Journal of Medical Systems.

  17. Bitan Y., Parmet Y., Greenfield G., Teng S., Cook R.I. and Nunnally M.E. (2019). Making sense of the cognitive task of medication reconciliation using a card sorting task. Human Factors, 61 (8).

  18. Hever G., Cohen L., O’Connor M.F., Matot I., Lerner B. and Bitan Y. (2019). Machine learning applied to multi-sensor information to reduce false alarm rate in the ICU. Journal of Clinical Monitoring & Computing, 1-14. 

  19. Bitan Y., Ramey S. and Milgram P. (2019). Ergonomic design of new paramedic response bag. Applied Ergonomics, 81.

  20. Perry O., Wacht O., Jaffe E., Sinuany-Steren Z. and Bitan Y. (2019). Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest protocol comparison. Australasian Journal of Paramedicine, 16 (4).

  21. Harari, Y., Rimer, R., Jaffe, E., Wacht, O. and Bitan, Y. (2020). Paramedic equipment bags: how their position during out-of-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) affects paramedic ergonomics and performance. Applied Ergonomics, 82. 

  22. Bitan Y., Shreiber A., Zafon G. and Jaffe E. (2020). Designing a First Responders’ Emergency Response Kit for Motor-Vehicle Collisions. Ergonomics in Design, 28(4), 11-17.

  23. Perry O., Wacht O., Jaffe E., Sinuany-Steren Z. and Bitan Y. (2020). Using a filming protocol to improve video-instructed cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Technology and Healthcare, 1-8.  

  24. Bitan Y., Abramovich I. and Jaffe E. (2021). Designing a First Responders Call Center for a Pandemic. Ergonomics in Design, 29(1), 25-28.
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  25. Liberman-Pincu E., and Bitan, Y. (2021). FULE—Functionality, Usability, Look-and-Feel and Evaluation Novel User-Centered Product Design Methodology—Illustrated in the Case of an Autonomous Medical Device. Applied Sciences, 11(3), 985.

  26. Jaffe E., Dopelt K., Davidovitch N. and Bitan Y. (2021). Vaccination of the elderly in assisted living by the Israeli Emergency Medical Services. American Journal of Public Health.

  27. Perry O., Jaffe E. and Bitan Y. (2021). Dynamic Communication Quantification Model for Measuring Information Management During Mass- Casualty Incident Simulations. Human Factors. 

  28. Kramer, O., Even, A., Matot I., Shteinberg, Y. and Bitan Y. (2021). The Impact of Data Quality Defects on Clinical Decision-Making in Intensive Care Unit. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine. 

  29. Levy, Y., Stern, R., Strum, A., Mordoch, A. and Bitan, Y. (2022). An Impact-Driven Approach to Predict User Stories Instability. Requirements Engineering, 1-18. 

  30. Levis-Ellmelech, T. , Schwartz, D. and Bitan Y. (2022). The effect of emergency department nurse experience on triage decision making. Human Factors in Healthcare, 2.

  31. Bitan, Y., Lilach-Gueta, S. and Parush, A. (2022). Unmasking Expert Decisions: Clinicians Decision Making During a Pandemic Outbreak. International Journal of Healthcare Management.

  32. Jaffe E. and Bitan Y. (2022). Israeli dispatchers’ response time to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest emergency calls. Resuscitation. 

  33. Bitan, Y. and Sasangohar, F. (2022). Improving healthcare practice through the implementation of human factors and ergonomics principles. Human Factors.
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  34. Lavi, O., Wacht, O., Menashe, I., Jaffe, E. and Bitan, Y. (2022). Comparison between Personal Protective Equipment Wearing Protocols to Shorten Time to Treatment in Pre-Hospital Settings. Applied Sciences, 12(15), 7926.

  35. Sonkin, R., Jaffe, E., Wacht, O., Morse, H. and Bitan, Y. (2022). Real-Time Video Communication Between Ambulance Paramedic and Scene – A Simulation-based Study. BMC Health Services Research. 22:1049.

  36. Nathan, Y., Rosenblatt, J. and Bitan, Y.  (2022). Effect of the User Input Method on Response Time and Accuracy in a Binary Data Labeling Task. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction.

  37. Bitan, Y. and Nunnally, M. (2022). Shape matters: A neglected feature of medication safety. Journal of Medical Systems, 47:6.

  38. Rios, D., Katzman, N., Burdick, K. J., Gellert, M., Klein, J., Bitan, Y., & Schlesinger, J. J. (2023). Multisensory alarm to benefit alarm identification and decrease workload: a feasibility study. Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing, 1-9.


Book chapters
  1. Bitan Y., Nunnally ME. (2010). Does Telemedicine have a role in the ICU? What is it? Does it make a difference?  In Deutschman CS, Neligan PJ (Eds.), Evidenced-Based Practice of Critical Care. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders; pp. 693-697.

  2. Sheffi D., Donchin Y., Porat N. and Bitan Y. (2013). Examining the Effectiveness of Using Designed Stickers for Labeling Drugs and Medical Tubing. In Donchin Y. and Gopher D. (Eds.), Around the Patient Bed: Human Factors and Safety in Health Care. Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

  3. Bitan Y. (2017). Changes from within – How paramedic services can lead the way human factors is implemented in healthcare. In Keebler, Lazzara and Misasi (Eds.), Ergonomics and Human Factors of Pre-Hospital Emergency Care. Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

  4. Bitan Y. (2020). Design for Emergencies. In Sethumadhavan, A., & Sasangohar, F. (Eds.).  Design for health: Applications of human factors. Academic Press.


Conference proceedings
  1. Meyer, J., Bitan, Y., Shinar, D. and Zmora, E. (1999), Scheduling of Actions and Reliance on Warnings in a Simulated Control Task. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 43nd Annual Meeting, (pp. 251-255).

  2. Bitan, Y., Meyer, J., Shinar, D., and Zmora, E. (2000). Staff Actions and Alarms in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 44nd Annual Meeting.

  3. Bitan, Y, Meyer, J., Shinar, D. and Zmora, E. (2003) Reducing false alarms and improving nurses' reactions to true alarms in a neonatal intensive care unit. Israel Medical Association Journal (IMAJ), 5, 34. (Abstract).

  4. Meyer, J. and Bitan, Y. (2003). Determining the Weights of Scheduling and Responding in the Control of a Dynamic System. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 47th Annual Meeting.

  5. Nunnally M.E., Bitan Y., Nemeth C.P., O'Connor M.F., Cook R.I. (2005). Failure in context: linking observed behavior to cognition, tasks, and adverse events. Anesthesiology. 103: A1296.

  6. Nemeth CP, Cook RI, Donchin Y, Dierks MM, Patterson ES, Bitan Y, Crowley J, McNee S, Powell T. (2006). Learning from investigation: Experience with understanding healthcare adverse events. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA.

  7. Nunnally, M. E., Bitan, Y., & Cook, R. I. (2007). What Are They Saying? Device Logs Don't Tell Us as Much as They Could about Events. Anesthesiology, 107, A1598.

  8. Nunnally, M. E., Bitan, Y., & Cook, R. I. (2007). Not a Black Box: Infusion Devices Are Not Used like Aviation Data Recorders in Accident Analysis. Anesthesiology, 107: A1595

  9. Bitan, Y., O'Connor MF. (2012), Correlating data from different sensors to increase the positive predictive value of alarms: an empiric assessment. Proceedings of the 2012 HFES Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care, 157-158.

  10. Bitan, Y., Donchin Y. (2013), Implementing Human Factors methods in the design of new clinical facilities. Proceedings of the 2013 HFES Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care.

  11. Kellman, S., Bitan, Y., Greenfield, G., Nunnally, ME. (2013). Portable Simulation Creates a Toll to Analyze Expert Cognition in a Busy Work Environment. Anesthesia and Analgesia, 116, 309-309.

  12. Nunnally ME, Bitan, Y. (2014), Ad hoc signage in a new hospital- a useful social tool and cognitive artifact. Proceedings of the International Symposium of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare, 99-101.

  13. Harris, S., Bitan, Y., North, R., Ilan, R., Howes, D., Karn, K., and Burns, W. (2015). Engineering the Integrated Clinical Environment - Organizing Information in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Proceedings of the International Symposium of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare. 

  14. Bitan, Y., Ramey, S., Philp, G., and Uukkivi, T. (2015). Working with paramedics on implementing human factors improvements to their response bags. Proceedings of the International Symposium of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare.

  15. Bitan, Y., Ilan, R., Harris, S., and Karn, K. (2016). Multidisciplinary Approach to Critical Care Design: Information Sources and Utilization During Morning Rounds. Proceedings of the International Symposium of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare. 

  16. Bitan, Y., Ramey, S., Philp, G., and Milgram, P. (2016). Evaluation of Ergonomically Redesigned Paramedic Bags – A Usability Study. Proceedings of the International Symposium of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare. 

  17. Bitan, Y., Parmet, Y., Greenfield, G., Teng, S., and Nunnally, M. (2016).  The Cognitive Task of Medication Reconciliation - Clinicians’ Approaches to the Arrangement of Medical Condition and Medication History Information. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics International Annual Meeting.

  18. Bitan, Y., and Jaffe, E. (2016). Improving the Association Between Instruments and Kits in Paramedics’ Response Bags. Proceedings of the Healthcare Ergonomics and Patient Safety International Meeting.

  19. DeLaurentis, P. C., Hsu, K. Y., De la Armenta, A. I. H., and Bitan, Y. (2016). Investigating Delays in Updates to Infusion Pump Drug Limit Libraries. In AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings (Vol. 2016, p. 490). American Medical Informatics Association.

  20. Bitan, Y., Fuerch, J.H., Halamek, L.P., Harris, S.D., Ilan, R., Karn, K., and Yamada, N.E. (2017). Information Display in the Intensive Care Unit – Considerations for System Design and Implementation. Proceedings of the International Symposium of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare.

  21. Bitan, Y. and Jaffe, E. (2017). Studying Paramedics Working Environment in a Trauma Scene. Proceedings of the International Symposium of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare.

  22. Bitan, Y. , Jaffe, E., Gisick, L.M., Hallihan, G. and Keebler, J.R. (2018). Creative Research Approaches for Complex Questions in Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine. Proceedings of the International Symposium of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare.

  23. Levis, T., Schwartz, D. and Bitan, Y.  (2018). Triage Nurses Decision Support Application Design. Proceedings of the International Symposium of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare.

  24. Perry, O., Wacht, O., Jaffe, E., Sinuany-Steren, Z. and Bitan, Y.  (2018). Time to Recognizing out-of-Hospital Cardiac-Arrest. Proceedings of the International Symposium of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare.

  25. Fukakusa G., Milgram P. and Bitan, Y.  (2018). Optimizing the Design of Visual Patterns for Labels. Proceedings of the International Symposium of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare. 

  26. Cohen-kadosh, S., Sinuany-Stern, Z. and Bitan Y. (2018). Preparedness for earthquake disaster: optimal deployment of emergency treatment sites. Editors: Sinuany-Stern Z. and Cohen Y, ICIL 2018 Conference Proceedings p. 55-62, ISBN 978-965-572-573-5.

  27. Cohen-kadosh, S., Sinuany-Stern, Z. and Bitan Y. (2018). Earthquake Preparedness: optimal deployment of emergency treatment sites. European Conference for Operational Research, EURO 2018 Conference Proceedings.

  28. Harari, Y., Rimer, R., Jaffe, E., Wacht, O. and Bitan, Y.  (2018). The Relation Between the Paramedic’s Bags Location During Out-of-Hospital Resuscitation on Their Effort and Performance. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics International Annual Meeting, 938–939.
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  29. Perry, O., Jaffe, E. and Bitan, Y.  (2019). Measuring the Amounts of Information During Mass Casualty Incidents. Proceedings of the International Symposium of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare.

  30. Bitan, Y., Jaffe, E. and Donchin Y.  (2019). Designing emergency medical response bags for first responders. Proceedings of the International Symposium of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare. 

  31. Hansen, C.J., Allen, T.T., Bitan, Y. and Patterson, E.S. (2019). Algorithmic Transparency for Predicting In-Hospital Mortality: A Targeted Literature Review. Proceedings of the 14th International Naturalistic Decision Making Conference. 

  32. Kramer, O., Even, A., Matot I. and Bitan Y. (2019). Detecting Quality Defects in Intensive Care Unit Data. Proceedings of the Israel Association for Information Systems 2019 Conference.

  33. Katzman, N., Gellert, M., Schlesinger, J., Oron-Gilad, T., Cooperstock, J. and Bitan, Y. (2019). Evaluation of tactile cues for simulated patients' status under high and low workload. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 2019 Annual Meeting. 

  34. Liberman-Pincu, E. and Bitan, Y.  (2020). Functionality, usability, look & feel, and evaluation (FULE) methodology: A case study of user-centered design for an autonomic medical device. Proceedings of the International Symposium of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare.

  35. Bitan, Y. and Patterson, E. (2020). Unique challenges in user interface design for medical devices that use predictive algorithms. Proceedings of the International Symposium of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare. 

  36. Fahoum, A. and Bitan, Y. (2020). Improving Identification and Distinguishability of Medication Labels. Proceedings of the International Symposium of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare.

  37. Perry, O., Jaffe, E. and Bitan, Y. (2020). Measuring Information Management at MCI Simulation: Instruments Evaluation and Comparison. Proceedings of the International Symposium of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare.

  38. Gellert, M., Katzman, N., Klein, J., Frenkel, A., Klein, M., Cooperstock, J., Schlesinger, J. and Bitan, Y. (2020). Comparing auditory and tactile cues to inform clinicians of patients' vital signs. Proceedings of the International Symposium of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare.

  39. Ben Yaakov, Y., Bitan, Y., and Meyer, J. (2021). Do Users Know When to Buy Support and How to Use it? Proceedings of the human factors and ergonomics society 65th annual meeting.

  40. Perry, O., Jaffe, E., and Bitan, Y. (2022). Mass Casualty Incident Commander Decision-Making Models. Proceedings of the human factors and ergonomics society 66th annual meeting.