Child Health Evaluative Sciences, Research Institute, Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Transplant and Regenerative Medicine Centre, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada.
JMIR Hum Factors. 2024 Sep 19;11:e57984. doi: 10.2196/57984.
BACKGROUND: Electronic patient-reported outcome measures (ePROMs) are standardized digital instruments integrated into clinical care to collect subjective data regarding patients' health-related quality of life, functional status, and symptoms. In documenting patient-reported progress, ePROMs can guide treatment decisions and encourage measurement-based care practices. Voxe is a pediatric and user-centered ePROM platform for patients with chronic health conditions. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to describe the user-centered design approach involving feedback from end users and usability testing of Voxe's platform features to support implementation in a pediatric health care setting. METHODS: Purposive sampling was used to recruit patients aged 8-17 years from 2 chronic illness populations in 2 pediatric hospitals in Canada. Patients' health care team members were also purposively recruited. One-on-one iterative testing sessions were conducted digitally by research team members with participants to obtain feedback on the appearance and functionalities of the Voxe platform prototype. Patients and health care providers (HCPs) completed Voxe-related task-based activities. International Organization for Standardization key performance indicators were tracked during HCP task-based activities. HCPs also completed the System Usability Scale. To test platform usability, the think-aloud technique was used by participants during the completion of structured tasks. After completing all task-based activities, patient participants selected 5 words from the Microsoft Desirability Toolkit to describe their overall impression and experience with the Voxe platform. Qualitative data about likes, dislikes, and ease of use were collected through semistructured interviews. Feedback testing sessions were conducted with patients and HCPs until Voxe was acceptable to participating end users, with no further refinements identified. Quantitative and qualitative data analysis were completed using descriptive statistics and content analysis. RESULTS: A total of 49 patients and 38 HCPs were recruited. Patients were positive about Voxe's child-centered design characteristics and notification settings. HCPs rated Voxe as user-friendly and efficient, with the time to complete tasks decreasing over time. HCPs were satisfied with the Voxe platform functionalities and identified the value of Voxe's system notifications, summarized display of ePROM results, and its capacity to integrate with electronic medical records. Patients' and HCPs' high satisfaction rates with the Voxe prototype highlight the importance of being responsive to user suggestions from the inception of eHealth platform developments to ensure their efficient and effective design. CONCLUSIONS: This paper describes the user-centered creation and usability testing of Voxe as an ePROM platform for implementation into clinical care for pediatric patients with chronic health conditions. As a patient-facing platform that can be integrated into electronic medical records, Voxe aligns with measurement-based care practices to foster quality patient-centered approaches to care. End users' positive feedback and evaluation of the platform's user-friendliness and efficiency suggest that Voxe represents a valuable and promising solution to systematically integrate patient-related outcome (PRO) data into complex and dynamic clinical health care settings. INTERNATIONAL REGISTERED REPORT IDENTIFIER (IRRID): RR2-10.1136/bmjopen-2021-053119.
背景:电子患者报告结局测量(ePROMs)是整合到临床护理中的标准化数字工具,用于收集有关患者健康相关生活质量、功能状态和症状的主观数据。在记录患者报告的进展方面,ePROMs 可以指导治疗决策并鼓励基于测量的护理实践。Voxe 是一个面向儿科患者和用户的 ePROM 平台,适用于患有慢性疾病的患者。
目的:我们旨在描述用户为中心的设计方法,该方法涉及来自最终用户的反馈和对 Voxe 平台功能的可用性测试,以支持在儿科医疗保健环境中实施。
方法:采用目的性抽样方法,从加拿大 2 家儿童医院的 2 种慢性疾病患者群体中招募 8-17 岁的患者。还专门招募了患者的医疗保健团队成员。研究团队成员通过数字方式与参与者进行一对一的迭代测试会议,以获得对 Voxe 平台原型的外观和功能的反馈。患者和医疗保健提供者(HCPs)完成与 Voxe 相关的基于任务的活动。在 HCP 基于任务的活动期间,跟踪了国际标准化组织关键绩效指标。HCPs 还完成了系统可用性量表。为了测试平台的可用性,参与者在完成结构化任务时使用了出声思维技术。在完成所有基于任务的活动后,患者参与者从 Microsoft 吸引力工具包中选择 5 个单词来描述他们对 Voxe 平台的整体印象和体验。通过半结构化访谈收集有关喜欢、不喜欢和易用性的定性数据。在患者和 HCP 中进行反馈测试会议,直到 Voxe 被参与的最终用户接受,并且没有发现进一步的改进。使用描述性统计和内容分析完成定量和定性数据分析。
结果:共招募了 49 名患者和 38 名 HCP。患者对 Voxe 以儿童为中心的设计特点和通知设置持积极态度。HCP 对 Voxe 的用户友好性和高效性评价很高,完成任务的时间随着时间的推移而减少。HCP 对 Voxe 平台功能的满意度很高,并指出了 Voxe 系统通知、总结显示 ePROM 结果以及与电子病历集成的价值。患者和 HCP 对 Voxe 原型的高满意度突出表明,从电子健康平台开发的初始阶段开始,响应用户建议对于确保其高效和有效的设计至关重要。
结论:本文描述了 Voxe 的以用户为中心的创建和可用性测试,作为用于实施儿科慢性疾病患者临床护理的 ePROM 平台。作为一个面向患者的平台,可以集成到电子病历中,Voxe 符合基于测量的护理实践,以促进以患者为中心的优质护理方法。最终用户对平台易用性和效率的积极反馈表明,Voxe 是一种有价值且有前途的解决方案,可以将患者相关的结果(PRO)数据系统地整合到复杂和动态的临床医疗保健环境中。
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