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Atrial fibrillation dashboard evaluation using the think aloud protocol

BACKGROUND: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a common cardiac arrhythmia which is a major risk factor for stroke, transient ischaemic attacks and increased mortality. Primary care management of AF can significantly reduce these risks. We carried out an evaluation to asses the usability of an AF dashboard...

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Autores principales: de Lusignan, Simon, Liyanage, Harshana, Sherlock, Julian, Ferreira, Filipa, Munro, Neil, Feher, Michael, Hobbs, Richard
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Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7580041/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33087337
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjhci-2020-100191
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author de Lusignan, Simon
Liyanage, Harshana
Sherlock, Julian
Ferreira, Filipa
Munro, Neil
Feher, Michael
Hobbs, Richard
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Liyanage, Harshana
Sherlock, Julian
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Munro, Neil
Feher, Michael
Hobbs, Richard
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description BACKGROUND: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a common cardiac arrhythmia which is a major risk factor for stroke, transient ischaemic attacks and increased mortality. Primary care management of AF can significantly reduce these risks. We carried out an evaluation to asses the usability of an AF dashboard developed to improve data quality and the quality of care. METHOD: We developed an online dashboard about the quality of AF management for general practices of the Oxford Royal College of General Practitioners Research and Surveillance Centre network. The dashboard displays (1) case ascertainment, (2) a calculation of stroke and haemorrhage risk to assess whether the benefits of anticogulants outweigh their risk, (3) prescriptions of different types of anticoagulant and (4) if prescribed anticoagulant is at the correct dose. We conducted the think aloud evaluation, involving 24 dashboard users to improve its usability. RESULTS: Analysis of 24 transcripts received produced 120 individual feedback items (ie, verbalised tasks) that were mapped across five usability problem classes. We enhanced the dashboard based on evaluation feedback to encourage adoption by general practices participating in the sentinel network. CONCLUSIONS: The think aloud evaluation provided useful insights into important usability issues that require further development. Our enhanced AF dashboard was acceptable to clinicians and its impact on data quality and care should be assessed in a formal study.
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spelling pubmed-75800412020-10-27 Atrial fibrillation dashboard evaluation using the think aloud protocol de Lusignan, Simon Liyanage, Harshana Sherlock, Julian Ferreira, Filipa Munro, Neil Feher, Michael Hobbs, Richard BMJ Health Care Inform Original Research BACKGROUND: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a common cardiac arrhythmia which is a major risk factor for stroke, transient ischaemic attacks and increased mortality. Primary care management of AF can significantly reduce these risks. We carried out an evaluation to asses the usability of an AF dashboard developed to improve data quality and the quality of care. METHOD: We developed an online dashboard about the quality of AF management for general practices of the Oxford Royal College of General Practitioners Research and Surveillance Centre network. The dashboard displays (1) case ascertainment, (2) a calculation of stroke and haemorrhage risk to assess whether the benefits of anticogulants outweigh their risk, (3) prescriptions of different types of anticoagulant and (4) if prescribed anticoagulant is at the correct dose. We conducted the think aloud evaluation, involving 24 dashboard users to improve its usability. RESULTS: Analysis of 24 transcripts received produced 120 individual feedback items (ie, verbalised tasks) that were mapped across five usability problem classes. We enhanced the dashboard based on evaluation feedback to encourage adoption by general practices participating in the sentinel network. CONCLUSIONS: The think aloud evaluation provided useful insights into important usability issues that require further development. Our enhanced AF dashboard was acceptable to clinicians and its impact on data quality and care should be assessed in a formal study. BMJ Publishing Group 2020-10-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7580041/ /pubmed/33087337 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjhci-2020-100191 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ http://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/.
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