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Designing clinical practice feedback reports: three steps illustrated in Veterans Health Affairs long-term care
Zach Landis-Lewis1, Jennifer Kononowech2, Winifred J Scott3
1Department of Learning Health Sciences, University of Michigan Medical School, 1161 J NIB, 300 N. Ingalls Street, SPC 5403, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109-5403, USA. zachll@umich.edu.
Background:
User-centered design (UCD) methods are well-established techniques for creating useful artifacts, but few studies illustrate their application to clinical feedback reports. When used as an implementation strategy, the content of feedback reports depends on a foundational audit process involving performance measures and data, but these important relationships have not been adequately described. Better guidance on UCD methods for designing feedback reports is needed. Our objective is to describe the feedback report design method for refining the content of prototype reports.
Methods:
We propose a three-step feedback report design method (refinement of measures, data, and display). The three steps follow dependencies such that refinement of measures can require changes to data, which in turn may require changes to the display. We believe this method can be used effectively with a broad range of UCD techniques.
Results:
We illustrate the three-step method as used in implementation of goals of care conversations in long-term care settings in the U.S. Veterans Health Administration. Using iterative usability testing, feedback report content evolved over cycles of the three steps. Following the steps in the proposed method through 12 iterations with 13 participants, we improved the usability of the feedback reports.
Conclusions:
UCD methods can improve feedback report content through an iterative process. When designing feedback reports, refining measures, data, and display may enable report designers to improve the user centeredness of feedback reports.
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