TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fong, Allan
AU  - Ratwani, Raj M
TI  - 'Connecting the dots': leveraging visual analytics to make sense of patient safety event reports
SN  - 1067-5027
PY  - 2015///
KW  - *Data Display
KW  - *Medical Errors
KW  - *Safety Management
KW  - *User-Computer Interface
KW  - Humans
KW  - Medical Errors/pc [Prevention & Control]
KW  - Medical Errors/sn [Statistics & Numerical Data]
KW  - Patient Safety
KW  - Pattern Recognition, Automated
KW  - Software
KW  - National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare
KW  - Journal Article
N2  - An increasing number of healthcare providers are adopting patient safety event reporting systems, yet leveraging these data to improve safety remains a challenge, particularly with large datasets composed of thousands of event reports. A MedStar Health research team, with expertise in data analytics and human factors, developed intuitive visualization dashboards to facilitate data exploration and trend analysis. Dashboards were developed using an iterative design and development process that was end-user focused. A system level dashboard, representing data from multiple hospitals, and a hospital level dashboard were developed. The dashboards allowed users to directly manipulate the data, provided coordinated displays in different formats, and allowed users to quickly zoom in on specific variables of interest. Overall feedback was incredibly positive with nearly all users wanting to adopt the system immediately. Several improvements were suggested and are discussed. The success of this approach highlights the need for more intuitive data analysis tools.Copyright � The Author 2014. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Medical Informatics Association. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/amiajnl-2014-002963
ER  -