Medical data formatting to improve physician interpretation speed in the Military Healthcare System.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The purpose of this project was to improve ease and speed of physician comprehension when interpreting daily laboratory data for patients admitted within the Military Healthcare System (MHS).

Materials and methods

A JavaScript program was created to convert the laboratory data obtained via the outpatient electronic medical record (EMR) into a "fishbone diagram" format that is familiar to most physicians. Using a balanced crossover design, 35 internal medicine trainees and staff at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth were asked to complete timed comprehension tests for laboratory data sets formatted in the outpatient EMR's format and in fishbone diagram format. The number of responses per second and error rate per response were measured for each format. Participants wer

SUBMITTER: Peterson JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9239313 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature