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Table 1 Staff opinion of an automatic urinometer compared with a manual urinometer

From: Performance and user evaluation of a novel capacitance-based automatic urinometer compared with a manual standard urinometer after elective cardiac surgery

Question Grading (n = 28 staff members)
  5 4 3 2 1
  Very easy Easy Fair Not easy Hard
1. How easy was it to learn to use the automatic urinometer? 39% 54% 7% 0% 0%
2. Was the collection of urine output data from the automatic urinometer easier compared with the manual urinometer? 32% 43% 14% 11% 0%
  A lot less Less Same More Much more
3. Did you feel that you had less contact with the urine bags with the automatic urinometer compared with the manual urinometer? 36% 25% 39% 0% 0%
  Much more More Same Less Much less
4. Do you think the reliability of the urine output data is higher with the automatic urinometer than with the manual urinometer? 21% 64% 7% 0% 7%
5. Does using the automatic urinometer give you more time for other activities? 0% 32% 68% 0% 0%
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Critical Care

ISSN: 1364-8535