Evaluation of Health Care Icons

Drews, Frank A.; Zadra, Jonathan R.; Gleed, Jeremy R.; Plew, William; Heroult, Jennifer; Wilck, Nancy R.

doi:10.1177/1541931215591129

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“…This result indicates that nurses' preference was influenced by the quality of the specific terms and icons surveyed, as opposed to their previous experience with those terms and icons. standard labeling practices for medical devices, 40,44,45 much work is needed to achieve such a goal with ESUs. Nevertheless, our findings regarding nurse preference have provided a strong foundation for working toward a standardized set of terms and icons for ESU labels.…”

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Preferred Terms and Icons for Labels on Electrosurgical Units: Survey of VA Nurses

Taylor¹,

Li²,

Estock³

et al. 2019

Biomedical Instrumentation & Technology

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Electrosurgical units (ESUs) developed by different manufacturers use varying terminology and icons to label the same components, which can result in confusion among users and the potential for erroneous ESU configuration. The objective of the current study was to identify nurse-preferred terms and icons for labeling ESU components. A total of 165 operating room (OR) nurses from Veterans Health Administration facilities across the United States were surveyed regarding terms and icons found on 25 ESU models. The results showed that 81% of OR nurses preferred ESUs that included both a term and an icon for labeling each component. In addition, greater consensus existed among OR nurses regarding preferred terms, rather than preferred icons, for representing each component. These findings on OR nurses' preferred terms and icons can be leveraged to improve ESU labeling practices and inform the development of a standardized, user-centered set of labels for ESU components.

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“…35,39,40 Without this rigorous approach to development and usability testing, users likely will struggle to interpret information accurately and efficiently. 40,44…”

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Preferred Terms and Icons for Labels on Electrosurgical Units: Survey of VA Nurses

Taylor¹,

Li²,

Estock³

et al. 2019

Biomedical Instrumentation & Technology

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“…icons for heartrate, blood pressure, or icons indicating a specialization such as dermatology) can wildly vary from app to app, from platform to platform, and from app to hospital environment (Powell, Landman, and Bates, 2014). Outside of mobile applications, icons tend to be used much less frequently and when they are used, are frequently implemented poorly leading to confusion (Drews et al, 2015).…”

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Design for the Illiterate: A Scoping Review of Tools for Improving the Health Literacy of Electronic Health Resources

Barclay

Bowers

2017

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual

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Nearly 1 in 5 people living in the United States cannot read at even a basic level, a condition which greatly affects health outcomes. Despite this, most electronic health resources are reliant not only on text, but on complex reading and text manipulation that may result in poorer outcomes and reduced usage by patients with reduced literacy. This paper aims to synthesize findings and best practices across health literacy research, product design and games for health to support the development of electronic health resources which are less reliant on text to communicate health information. This synthesis involves the implantation of visual means of communication, as well as leveraging the strengths of planned interactions modeled after patient-caregiver communication. Through adopting these techniques, it is hoped that the concept of a health-literate system of healthcare can be extend from direct care settings and into the electronic design space.

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Evaluation of Health Care Icons

Cited by 2 publications

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Preferred Terms and Icons for Labels on Electrosurgical Units: Survey of VA Nurses

Preferred Terms and Icons for Labels on Electrosurgical Units: Survey of VA Nurses

Design for the Illiterate: A Scoping Review of Tools for Improving the Health Literacy of Electronic Health Resources

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