Virtual Patient Technology: Engaging Primary Care in Quality Improvement Innovations.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Engaging health care staff in new quality improvement programs is challenging.

Objective

We developed 2 virtual patient (VP) avatars in the context of a clinic-level quality improvement program. We sought to determine differences in preferences for VPs and the perceived influence of interacting with the VP on clinical staff engagement with the quality improvement program.

Methods

Using a participatory design approach, we developed an older male smoker VP and a younger female smoker VP. The older male smoker was described as a patient with cardiovascular disease and was ethnically ambiguous. The female patient was younger and was worried about the impact of smoking on her pregnancy. Clinical staff were allowed to choose the VP they preferred, and the more th

SUBMITTER: Blok AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5332834 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature