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Population-based user-perceived experience of Rheumatic?: a novel digital symptom-checker in rheumatology

OBJECTIVE: Digital symptom-checkers (SCs) have potential to improve rheumatology triage and reduce diagnostic delays. In addition to being accurate, SCs should be user friendly and meet patient’s needs. Here, we examined usability and acceptance of Rheumatic?—a new and freely available online SC (cu...

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Autores principales: Lundberg, Karin, Qin, Ling, Aulin, Cecilia, van Spil, Willem Evert, Maurits, Marc P, Knevel, Rachel
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Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10152040/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37094982
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/rmdopen-2022-002974
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author Lundberg, Karin
Qin, Ling
Aulin, Cecilia
van Spil, Willem Evert
Maurits, Marc P
Knevel, Rachel
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Qin, Ling
Aulin, Cecilia
van Spil, Willem Evert
Maurits, Marc P
Knevel, Rachel
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description OBJECTIVE: Digital symptom-checkers (SCs) have potential to improve rheumatology triage and reduce diagnostic delays. In addition to being accurate, SCs should be user friendly and meet patient’s needs. Here, we examined usability and acceptance of Rheumatic?—a new and freely available online SC (currently with >44 000 users)—in a real-world setting. METHODS: Study participants were recruited from an ongoing prospective study, and included people ≥18 years with musculoskeletal complaints completing Rheumatic? online. The user experience survey comprised five usability and acceptability questions (11-point rating scale), and an open-ended question regarding improvement of Rheumatic? Data were analysed in R using t-test or Wilcoxon rank test (group comparisons), or linear regression (continuous variables). RESULTS: A total of 12 712 people completed the user experience survey. The study population had a normal age distribution, with a peak at 50–59 years, and 78% women. A majority found Rheumatic? useful (78%), thought the questionnaire gave them an opportunity to describe their complaints well (76%), and would recommend Rheumatic? to friends and other patients (74%). Main shortcoming was that 36% thought there were too many questions. Still, 39% suggested more detailed questions, and only 2% suggested a reduction of questions. CONCLUSION: Based on real-world data from the largest user evaluation study of a digital SC in rheumatology, we conclude that Rheumatic? is well accepted by women and men with rheumatic complaints, in all investigated age groups. Wide-scale adoption of Rheumatic?, therefore, seems feasible, with promising scientific and clinical implications on the horizon.
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spelling pubmed-101520402023-05-03 Population-based user-perceived experience of Rheumatic?: a novel digital symptom-checker in rheumatology Lundberg, Karin Qin, Ling Aulin, Cecilia van Spil, Willem Evert Maurits, Marc P Knevel, Rachel RMD Open Early Arthritis OBJECTIVE: Digital symptom-checkers (SCs) have potential to improve rheumatology triage and reduce diagnostic delays. In addition to being accurate, SCs should be user friendly and meet patient’s needs. Here, we examined usability and acceptance of Rheumatic?—a new and freely available online SC (currently with >44 000 users)—in a real-world setting. METHODS: Study participants were recruited from an ongoing prospective study, and included people ≥18 years with musculoskeletal complaints completing Rheumatic? online. The user experience survey comprised five usability and acceptability questions (11-point rating scale), and an open-ended question regarding improvement of Rheumatic? Data were analysed in R using t-test or Wilcoxon rank test (group comparisons), or linear regression (continuous variables). RESULTS: A total of 12 712 people completed the user experience survey. The study population had a normal age distribution, with a peak at 50–59 years, and 78% women. A majority found Rheumatic? useful (78%), thought the questionnaire gave them an opportunity to describe their complaints well (76%), and would recommend Rheumatic? to friends and other patients (74%). Main shortcoming was that 36% thought there were too many questions. Still, 39% suggested more detailed questions, and only 2% suggested a reduction of questions. CONCLUSION: Based on real-world data from the largest user evaluation study of a digital SC in rheumatology, we conclude that Rheumatic? is well accepted by women and men with rheumatic complaints, in all investigated age groups. Wide-scale adoption of Rheumatic?, therefore, seems feasible, with promising scientific and clinical implications on the horizon. BMJ Publishing Group 2023-04-24 /pmc/articles/PMC10152040/ /pubmed/37094982 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/rmdopen-2022-002974 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2023. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) .
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van Spil, Willem Evert
Maurits, Marc P
Knevel, Rachel
Population-based user-perceived experience of Rheumatic?: a novel digital symptom-checker in rheumatology
title Population-based user-perceived experience of Rheumatic?: a novel digital symptom-checker in rheumatology
title_full Population-based user-perceived experience of Rheumatic?: a novel digital symptom-checker in rheumatology
title_fullStr Population-based user-perceived experience of Rheumatic?: a novel digital symptom-checker in rheumatology
title_full_unstemmed Population-based user-perceived experience of Rheumatic?: a novel digital symptom-checker in rheumatology
title_short Population-based user-perceived experience of Rheumatic?: a novel digital symptom-checker in rheumatology
title_sort population-based user-perceived experience of rheumatic?: a novel digital symptom-checker in rheumatology
topic Early Arthritis
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10152040/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37094982
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/rmdopen-2022-002974
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