Department of General Practice/Family Medicine, Philipps University Marburg, Marburg, Germany.
Inform Health Soc Care. 2012 Dec;37(4):264-76. doi: 10.3109/17538157.2012.654841. Epub 2012 Jun 12.
Computerised log files are important for analysing user behaviour in health informatics to gain insight into processes that lead to suboptimal user patterns. This is important for software training programmes or for changes to improve usability. Technical user behaviour regarding decision aids has not so far been thoroughly investigated with log files. The aim of our study was to examine more detailed user interactions of primary-care physicians and their patients with arriba-lib, our multimodular electronic library of decision aids used during consultations, on the basis of log data. We analysed 184 consultation log files from 28 primary-care physicians. The average consultation time of our modules was about 8 min. Two-thirds of the consultation time were spent in the history information part of the programme. In this part, mainly bar charts were used to display risk information. Our electronic library of decision aids does not generate specific user behaviour based on physician characteristics such as age, gender, years in practice, or prior experience with decision aids. This supports the widespread use of our e-library in the primary-care sector and probably beyond.
计算机化的日志文件对于分析健康信息学中的用户行为非常重要，可以深入了解导致用户模式不佳的过程。这对于软件培训计划或改进可用性的更改非常重要。迄今为止，日志文件尚未对决策辅助工具的技术用户行为进行彻底调查。我们的研究目的是根据日志数据，更详细地研究初级保健医生及其患者与 arriba-lib 的交互作用，arriba-lib 是我们在咨询期间使用的多模块决策辅助工具电子库。我们分析了来自 28 名初级保健医生的 184 个咨询日志文件。我们模块的平均咨询时间约为 8 分钟。三分之二的咨询时间花在了程序的历史信息部分。在这一部分中，主要使用条形图来显示风险信息。我们的决策辅助工具电子库不会根据医生的特征（如年龄、性别、从业年限或决策辅助工具的使用经验）生成特定的用户行为。这支持了我们的电子库在初级保健领域的广泛使用，可能还超出了这个范围。
