Usage Patterns of Web-Based Stroke Calculators in Clinical Decision Support: Retrospective Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Clinical scores are frequently used in the diagnosis and management of stroke. While medical calculators are increasingly important support tools for clinical decisions, the uptake and use of common medical calculators for stroke remain poorly characterized.

Objective

We aimed to describe use patterns in frequently used stroke-related medical calculators for clinical decisions from a web-based support system.

Methods

We conducted a retrospective study of calculators from MDCalc, a web-based and mobile app-based medical calculator platform based in the United States. We analyzed metadata tags from MDCalc's calculator use data to identify all calculators related to stroke. Using relative page views as a measure of calculator use, we determined the 5 most freq

SUBMITTER: Kummer B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8369374 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature