Article
A Heuristic Evaluation to Assess Use of After Visit Summaries for Supporting Continuity of Care
Applied Clinical Informatics
(2018)
Abstract
BACKGROUND:
Outpatient providers often do not receive discharge summaries from acute care providers prior to follow-up visits. These outpatient providers may use the after-visit summaries (AVS) that are given to patients to obtain clinical information. It is unclear how effectively AVS support care coordination between clinicians.
OBJECTIVES:
Goals for this effort include: (1) developing usability heuristics that may be applied both for assessment and to guide generation of medical documents in general, (2) conducting a heuristic evaluation to assess the use of AVS for communication between clinicians, and (3) providing recommendations for generating AVS that effectively support both patient/caregiver use and care coordination.
Disciplines
Publication Date
July 1, 2018
DOI
10.1055/s-0038-1668093
Citation Information
Patrice Tremoulet, Ramya Krishnan, Dean Karavite, Naveen Muthu, et al.. "A Heuristic Evaluation to Assess Use of After Visit Summaries for Supporting Continuity of Care" Applied Clinical Informatics Vol. 9 Iss. 3 (2018) p. 714 - 724 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/patrice-tremoulet/9/