Contact email

skhasnabish@bwh.harvard.edu

Overview

The team applied principles from the data visualization literature and feedback from nurses to develop and effective report to display adherence with an evidence-based fall prevention program with improvement in usability scores.

Department

Medicine

Collaborators

Srijesa Khasnabish, BA
Zoe Burns, MPH
Madeline Couch, MSN, BSN
Mary Mullin
Randall Newmark, PhD
Patricia C Dykes, RN, PhD

Status/Stage of Development

Completed

Measurement

Health Information Technology Usability Evaluation Scale (Health-ITUES)

Results

-The literature emphasized maximizing information communicated, minimizing cognitive efforts involved with interpretation, and selecting the correct type of display
-Semi-structured nurse interviews emphasized value of simplified reports and meaningful data
-Health-ITUES score increased to 4.29 from 3.86 in the revised report, a signifiant improvement.

Major Project Needs

• None

Sources

1. Khasnabish S, Burns Z, Couch M, Mullin M, Newmark R, Dykes PC. Best practices for data visualization: creating and evaluating a report for an evidence-based fall prevention program. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2020;27(2):308-314. doi:10.1093/jamia/ocz190