Comparing Single-Page, Multipage, and Conversational Digital Forms in Health Care: Usability Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Even in the era of digital technology, several hospitals still rely on paper-based forms for data entry for patient admission, triage, drug prescriptions, and procedures. Paper-based forms can be quick and convenient to complete but often at the expense of data quality, completeness, sustainability, and automated data analytics. Digital forms can improve data quality by assisting the user when deciding on the appropriate response to certain data inputs (eg, classifying symptoms). Greater data quality via digital form completion not only helps with auditing, service improvement, and patient record keeping but also helps with novel data science and machine learning research. Although digital forms are becoming more prevalent in health care, there is a lack of empirical bes

SUBMITTER: Iftikhar A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8190652 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature