Evaluation: salvation or nemesis of medical informatics?

Moehr, Jochen R.

doi:10.1016/s0010-4825(02)00009-4

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“…Heathfield and colleagues' view that the randomised trial has a limited role in evaluations of information technology is currently widespread among medical informatics professionals. [175][176][177] The most popular designs in the 15 studies considered were the before-and-after study (five studies, only one of which was externally controlled) and the interrupted time series (five studies). The uncontrolled before-and-after study is probably the weakest of all study designs in an evaluator's toolkit.…”

Section: The Case For Using Rcts In Assessing the Impact Of Decision mentioning

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Systematic reviews of clinical decision tools for acute abdominal pain

Liu¹,

Wyatt²,

Deeks³

et al. 2006

Health Technol Assess

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Section: The Case For Using Rcts In Assessing the Impact Of Decision mentioning

confidence: 99%

Systematic reviews of clinical decision tools for acute abdominal pain

Liu¹,

Wyatt²,

Deeks³

et al. 2006

Health Technol Assess

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“…During the last yearst he significanceo f evaluation studies hasg rown in medical informatics. Evaluation studies arei ncreasinglyconsideredpartofthe planning, development, introduction ando peration of information technology in health care [1][2][3][4][5].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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“…Fort he samer eason, the location wheree valuation studies took placew as of interest for us (e.g.w ee xpected ar ising numberofevaluationsatthe patient'shome reflecting an increased significanceo f home-based care).O ur inventoryt hene mphasizes the focusofastudy (e.g.software quality, effect on outcome quality) andt he methods applied (e.g.q ualitative versus quantitative methods), as methodological discussions have been going on for some yearsnow in medical informatics(compare e.g. [5,[11][12][13]).…”

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An Inventory of Evaluation Studies of Information Technology in Health Care

Keizer¹,

Ammenwerth²

2005

Methods Inf Med

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We found interesting developments in evaluation research in the last 20 years. For example, there has been a strong shift from medical journals to medical informatics journals. With regard to methods, explanatory research and quantitative methods have dominated evaluation studies in the last 20 years. Since 1982, the number of lab studies and technical evaluation studies has declined, while the number of studies focusing on the influence of information technology on quality of care processes or outcome of patient care has increased. We interpret this shift as a sign of maturation of evaluation research in medical informatics.

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“…So far, no conclusive results have been obtained at the general level, although more specific effects have been observed related to particular types of operations that favor one or the other. A severe difficulty in these types of evaluations is to isolate the particular functionality of the system as such from the other effects of it being used [22]. A particular instantiation of a computer system, of which the human subjects are unfamiliar, and which may be more or less user-friendly and work-flow fitted, is often compared to a well known manual procedure.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%