Usability Testing of a National Substance Use Screening Tool Embedded in Electronic Health Records.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) is currently being implemented into health systems nationally via paper and electronic methods.

Objective

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the integration of an electronic SBIRT tool into an existing paper-based SBIRT clinical workflow in a patient-centered medical home.

Methods

Usability testing was conducted in an academic ambulatory clinic. Two rounds of usability testing were done with medical office assistants (MOAs) using a paper and electronic version of the SBIRT tool, with two and four participants, respectively. Qualitative and quantitative data was analyzed to determine the impact of both tools on clinical workflow. A second round of usability testing was done with the revi

SUBMITTER: Press A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4958139 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature