Development and Usability Testing of a Web-based COVID-19 Self-triage Platform.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The development and deployment of a web-based, self-triage tool for severe respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (COVID-19 disease) aimed at preventing surges in healthcare utilization could provide easily understandable health guidance with the goal of mitigating unnecessary emergency department (ED) and healthcare visits. We describe the iterative development and usability testing of such a tool. We hypothesized that adult users could understand and recall the recommendations provided by a COVID-19 web-based, self-triage tool.

Methods

We convened a multidisciplinary panel of medical experts at two academic medical schools in an iterative redesign process of a previously validated web-based, epidemic screening tool for the current COVID-19 pandemic. We then conduc

SUBMITTER: Schrager JD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7514387 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature