15 Usability Recommendations for Delivering Clinical Guidelines on Mobile Devices

Applying recommendations and working with clinical experts to understand, adapt, verify, and validate clinical information for mobile delivery

“…The reduction in word count can be linked with the recommendations of reducing long sentences, providing information as succinctly as possible, and minimising the number of warnings/alerts to avoid 'alert fatigue'. Although not a recommendation in terms of the 15 outlined in previous research (Mitchell et al 2021), the reduction of tables is also a factor in the reduction of text. It is worth note that the word count reduction is despite the introduction of decision algorithms and calculation tools.…”

“…The clinical guidelines expert was provided with the recommendations elicited during the UCD processes discussed in previous research publications (Mitchell et al 2021). Each guideline contained in BCG Medical Guidelines were then subjected to a reauthoring process by the clinical guidelines expert and then converted for use in the BCG app.…”

“…It also allows access to expertise that would otherwise require far more planning and availability. Research discussed in previous publications (Mitchell et al 2020(Mitchell et al , 2021 has benefited from the guidance and experience of clinicians to produce a Bedside Clinical Guidelines (BCGs) mobile application. The BCGs are an example of clinical guidelines that are designed for use at the point of care.…”

“…Typically, user-centred design (UCD) methodology recommends multiple user input (Nielsen and Landauer 1993;Maguire 2001) . The authors of this paper produced previous research (Mitchell et al 2021) which discuss the evaluation of recommendations in terms of user interaction and usability. However, it is necessary to understand and evaluate the impact of these recommendations in terms of clinical information delivery.…”

“…This paper discusses the utilisation of a single clinical expert to adapt, verify, and validate clinical information for mobile (smartphone) delivery. It also discusses the impact of applying a set of recommendations based on previous research (Mitchell et al 2021).…”