Characterizing Patient-Friendly "Micro-Explanations" of Medical Events

Patients' basic understanding of clinical events has been shown to dramatically improve patient care. We propose that the automatic generation of very short , suitable for real-time delivery in clinical settings, can transform patient care by giving patients greater awareness of key events in t...

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Published inProceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Vol. 2011; p. 29
Main Authors Wilcox, Lauren, Morris, Dan, Tan, Desney, Gatewood, Justin, Horvitz, Eric
Format Journal Article Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 07.05.2011
Subjects
Electronic Medical Records
Human Factors
Personal Health Records
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DOI10.1145/1978942.1978948

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Summary:Patients' basic understanding of clinical events has been shown to dramatically improve patient care. We propose that the automatic generation of very short , suitable for real-time delivery in clinical settings, can transform patient care by giving patients greater awareness of key events in their electronic medical record. We present results of a survey study indicating that it may be possible to automatically generate such explanations by extracting individual sentences from consumer-facing Web pages. We further inform future work by characterizing physician and non-physician responses to a variety of Web-extracted explanations of medical lab tests.
DOI:10.1145/1978942.1978948