Updated on 2026/03/26

写真a

 
GU Xiuzhu
 
Organization
School of Engineering Associate Professor
Title
Associate Professor
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Research Areas

  • Others / Others  / 医療マネジメント、安全工学、人間工学

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Research Projects

  • Identification of risk awareness processes in emergency rooms based on 2-steps eye tracking analysis scheme and its application to developement of training tools

    Grant number：25K08172  2025.4 - 2028.3

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

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    Grant amount：\4550000 （ Direct Cost: \3500000 、 Indirect Cost：\1050000 ）

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  • The relationship between workplace discrimination and health among foreign workers

    Grant number：25K13699  2025.4 - 2028.3

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

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    Grant amount：\4550000 （ Direct Cost: \3500000 、 Indirect Cost：\1050000 ）

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  • Developing a PROACTIVE telemedicine-related incident management system

    Grant number：24K07926  2024.4 - 2027.3

    日本学術振興会  科学研究費助成事業  基盤研究(C)

    顧 秀珠

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    Grant amount：\4550000 （ Direct Cost: \3500000 、 Indirect Cost：\1050000 ）

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  • Patient safety: Casting a spotlight on electronic medical record-related incidents

    Grant number：19K15236  2019.4 - 2024.3

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists

    Gu Xiuzhu

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    Grant amount：\4160000 （ Direct Cost: \3200000 、 Indirect Cost：\960000 ）

    This study focused on new patient safety issues arising from electronic medical record (EMR) systems and aimed to develop an EMR-related incident management system that includes reporting, analysis, countermeasures, and evaluation of these events. A literature review and interviews with experts such as healthcare providers and management personnel were conducted to develop a taxonomy system for EMR-related incident analysis. Using this taxonomy system, the current problems and characteristics were clarified through the analysis of related incident and accident events. Based on these results, EMR-related incident management system was developed, consisting of incident reporting, analysis, countermeasures, and evaluation. The effectiveness of the system was evaluated through case studies, considering the trends in related incident reports, the appropriateness of countermeasures applied by the system, and the satisfaction levels of healthcare providers and management personnel.

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  • A Sensor-based Automatic Collection and Feedback System of Elderly People's Activity-Health Information: Impact Evaluation from Social and Human Factors Perspectives

    Grant number：18H01654  2018.4 - 2021.3

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

    Itoh Kenji

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    Grant amount：\17030000 （ Direct Cost: \13100000 、 Indirect Cost：\3930000 ）

    The present project developed a sensor-based system for the purpose of enhancement of elderly citizens’ health and quality of life. The system supports the following monitoring-feedback cycle of human activities and health conditions routinely and automatically: monitoring, transmitting to the server, generating assessment and feedback.
    Effects of the monitoring-feedback cycle with the sensor-based system was validated by use of two-month trails with many elderly participants in real-life settings. Significant positive effects were observed on their physical activities and mental states, e.g., awareness of physical activities and its motivation even during the pandemic of COVID-19. We developed a macro model for estimating total social cost such as healthcare expenses spent for elderly people by using the above-mentioned trial results on relationships between elderly people’s physical activities and health states. The model was confirmed and discussed by applying various scenarios.

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  • Development of Analysis Technology for Patient Safety by the Use of Gaze Interaction: Automatic Identification of Visual Information Processing Errors

    Grant number：16K12824  2016.4 - 2018.3

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research

    Itoh Kenji, Aoki Hirotaka, Xiuzhu Gu

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    Grant amount：\3510000 （ Direct Cost: \2700000 、 Indirect Cost：\810000 ）

    In this research project, we constructed an applied technology of eye tracking to healthcare management for reduction of healthcare accidents, and explored its effectiveness, pros and cons for the future, full-scale usage of the technology through its application to actual tasks in healthcare settings. In this study, we developed an application system to risk management by the use of a low-cost, non-intrusive eye-tracker, which collects healthcare personnel's visual processing data during their task performance without their consciousness of data gathering. The collected data can be analysed as their cognitive processes and be applied to automatically capturing human errors by effective matching between a particular task case and its successful samples stored in the database. This application technology was implemented to physician’s prescription when using electronic patient record, and technician’s operation of a dialysis machine to evaluate its effectiveness and usefulness.

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  • Improving communication for an effective and safe patient handoff

    Grant number：15K16291  2015.4 - 2019.3

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)

    Gu Xiuzhu

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    Grant amount：\3900000 （ Direct Cost: \3000000 、 Indirect Cost：\900000 ）

    This research project focused on factors leading to patient handoff failures such as insufficient communication and immature handoff system, and aimed at establishing a safe and effective organizational culture and handoff protocol. Various methods were applied in this project, e.g., questionnaire survey, interviews to professionals, incident report analysis by using self-developed handoff error taxonomy system. And the main outputs are as follows: (1) Characteristics of organizational climate surrounding patient handoff was explored for inter-department handoff (between departments or wards) in the hospital as well as nursing shift handoff. The current conditions and problems in handoffs were also clarified; (2) a standardized protocol was developed enabling effective handoffs via sufficient communications between sender, receiver and patient; (3) the effectiveness of the constructed protocol was verified after implementation by a tool designed for handoff quality assessment.

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  • Healthcare Operations Management from Stakeholder Perspectives and Its Cross-National Benchmarking

    Grant number：23241048  2011.4 - 2015.3

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)

    ITOH Kenji, AOKI Hirotaka, AKIBA Takashi, SUZUKI Satoshi, GU Xiuzhu

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    Grant amount：\48620000 （ Direct Cost: \37400000 、 Indirect Cost：\11220000 ）

    In this research project, we constructed a holistic management paradigm of healthcare organisations, aiming at global optimisation of various healthcare goals, and effective management activities at different time-band levels; from daily operations management, tactical planning to strategic decision making. As a core part of the management paradigm proposed in this project, periodical assessment of each organisation is conducted through performance measurement by the use of a limited number of “key” performance indicators, which were arranged from stakeholder perspectives and assessment properties. We implemented this paradigm as a computer-based system which included a central server and a number of client workstations in clinics connected on the high security network, applying to dialysis facility management. The holistic healthcare management paradigm proposed in this project was evaluated through applications of the system to a number of dialysis facilities.

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