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Dynamic reaction picklist for improving allergy reaction documentation: A usability study.

Liqin Wang¹, Heekyong Park², Sachin Vallamkonda³

¹Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

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Summary

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Dynamic reaction picklists significantly improve allergy documentation by reducing free-text entries and saving time. Clinicians overwhelmingly preferred the dynamic picklist over static options for efficiency and ease of use.

Keywords:

Documentation Drug hypersensitivity Drug-related side effects and adverse reactions Electronic health record Usability User interface evaluation

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Area of Science:

Health Informatics
Clinical Documentation Improvement
Human-Computer Interaction in Healthcare

Background:

Current electronic health record (EHR) allergy reaction picklists are often inadequate, leading to clinician dissatisfaction.
Static picklists can be comprehensive, inefficient, and unintuitive, prompting increased use of free-text entries.

Purpose of the Study:

To evaluate novel dynamic reaction picklists for enhancing allergy reaction documentation.
To compare the efficiency and usability of dynamic versus static reaction picklists in an EHR setting.

Main Methods:

Developed three web-based user interfaces (UIs) mimicking an EHR allergy module: two with dynamic picklists (UI-1D, UI-2D) and one with a static picklist (UI-3S).
Recruited 36 clinicians to perform allergy entry tasks using the UIs.
Measured the number of free-text entries, time to complete documentation, and clinician satisfaction through pre- and post-data entry interviews.

Main Results:

Clinicians using dynamic picklists (UI-1D, UI-2D) employed significantly fewer free-text entries compared to the static picklist (UI-3S).
Dynamic picklists reduced allergy documentation time by 15% (50-51 seconds).
Over 80% of clinicians rated the dynamic picklists as efficient, easy to use, and useful, with nearly all preferring them over the static version.

Conclusions:

Dynamic reaction picklists substantially decrease free-text entries and improve the efficiency of allergy documentation.
Clinician preference strongly favors dynamic picklists over static ones due to improved usability and effectiveness.