Study of patients' attitude to automatic interpretation of laboratory test results and its influence on follow-up rate.

ABSTRACT:

Background

One of the current major factors of not following up on the abnormal test results is the lack of information about the test results and missing interpretations. Clinical decision support systems (CDSS) can become a solution to this problem. However, little is known how patients react to the automatically generated interpretations of the test results, and how this can affect a decision to follow up. In this research, we study how patients perceive the interpretations of the laboratory tests automatically generated by a clinical decision support system depending on how they receive these recommendations and how this affects the follow-up rate.

Methods

A study of 3200 patients was done querying the regional patient registry. The patients were divided into 4 groups wh

SUBMITTER: Kopanitsa G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8962526 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature