Evidence-based usability design principles for medication alerting systems.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Usability flaws in medication alerting systems may have a negative impact on clinical use and patient safety. In order to prevent the release of alerting systems that contain such flaws, it is necessary to provide designers and evaluators with evidence-based usability design principles. The objective of the present study was to develop a comprehensive, structured list of evidence-based usability design principles for medication alerting systems.

Methods

Nine sets of design principles for medication alerting systems were analyzed, summarized, and structured. We then matched the summarized principles with a list of usability flaws in order to determine the level of underlying evidence.

Results

Fifty-eight principles were summarized from the literature and two

SUBMITTER: Marcilly R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6057098 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature