Usability Analysis of a Medication Visualization Tool for Decision Support.

Q3 Health Professions

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics Pub Date : 2023-09-12 DOI:10.3233/SHTI230701

Leon Schmidtchen, Marten Villis, Jan Christoph, Wolfgang Rödle

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Abstract

Background: In Germany, patients are entitled to a medication plan. While the overview is useful, it does not contain explicit information on various potential adverse drug events (ADEs). Therefore, physicians must continue to seek information from various sources to ensure medication safety.

Objective: In this project a first functional prototype of a medication therapy tool was developed that focuses on visualizing and highlighting potential ADEs. A usability analysis about the tool's functionality, design and usability was conducted.

Methods: A web application tool was developed using the MMI Pharmindex as database. ADEs are color coded and can be displayed in three different ways - as a list, a table, or a graph. To test the tool, an online survey was conducted amongst healthcare professionals (n = 9). The test included two real medication plans to check ADEs through the tool.

Results: The survey results indicated that the web tool was clear and self-explanatory. It scored overall "good" (score: 76.5) on the System Usability Scale questionnaire. Due to the free-text information of the database used, there were some inconsistencies in the visualized ADEs.

Conclusion: There is a demand for a visualization tool for medications. The high quality of the database is crucial in order to correctly visualize all necessary information, such as drug-drug interactions and inclusion of patient data. This is essential to provide a trustworthy tool for medical professionals.

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决策支持药物可视化工具的可用性分析。

背景:在德国，患者有权获得药物计划。虽然概述是有用的，但它不包含关于各种潜在药物不良事件(ADEs)的明确信息。因此，医生必须继续从各种来源寻求信息，以确保用药安全。目的:在这个项目中，开发了第一个药物治疗工具的功能原型，重点是可视化和突出潜在的ade。对工具的功能、设计和可用性进行了可用性分析。方法:以MMI Pharmindex为数据库，开发web应用工具。ade是用颜色编码的，可以以三种不同的方式显示——列表、表格或图表。为了测试该工具，在医疗保健专业人员中进行了一项在线调查(n = 9)。该测试包括两个真实的药物计划，通过该工具检查ade。结果:调查结果表明，网络工具清晰易懂。在系统可用性量表调查问卷中，它的总体得分为“好”(得分:76.5)。由于所使用的数据库的自由文本信息，在可视化的ade中存在一些不一致。结论:对药物可视化工具的需求。数据库的高质量对于正确地可视化所有必要的信息至关重要，例如药物-药物相互作用和患者数据的包含。这对于为医疗专业人员提供一个值得信赖的工具至关重要。

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Studies in Health Technology and Informatics Health Professions-Health Information Management

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1463

期刊介绍： This book series was started in 1990 to promote research conducted under the auspices of the EC programmes’ Advanced Informatics in Medicine (AIM) and Biomedical and Health Research (BHR) bioengineering branch. A driving aspect of international health informatics is that telecommunication technology, rehabilitative technology, intelligent home technology and many other components are moving together and form one integrated world of information and communication media.