Visualization Techniques for Summarizing Single Patient Health Data to Support Physicians' Clinical Decisions - A...

User-centered data visualizations can reduce physician cognitive load and support clinical decision making. To facilitate the selection of appropriate visualizations for single patient health data summaries, this scoping review provides a literature overview of possible visualization techniques and the corresponding reported user-centered design phases.

The publication databases PubMed, Web of Science, IEEE Xplore and ACM Digital Library were searched for relevant articles from 2017 to 2022.

Of the 777 articles screened, 78 articles were included in the final analysis. The most commonly used visualization techniques are table, scatterplot-line timeline, text and event timelines, with 24 other visualization techniques identified. The testing phase of the user centered design process is reported most frequently.

This scoping review can support developers in the selection of suitable visualizations for single patient health data by revealing the design space of possible visualization techniques.