ArticleJournal of medical Internet research2019
Patient Judgments About Hypertension Control: The Role of Variability, Trends, and Outliers in Visualized Blood Pressure Data.
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- The effect of adding visual summaries to data visualizations on patient judgments of hypertension control.JAMIA open · 2026Article
- The Impact of an Enhanced Data Visualization Tool for Hypertension in the Electronic Health Record on Physician Judgments About Hypertension Control.Journal of general internal medicine · 2025Article
- Facilitators and Barriers to Integrating Patient-Generated Blood Pressure Data into Primary Care EHR Workflows.Applied clinical informatics · 2024Article
- Patient-Facing Clinical Decision Support for High Blood Pressure Control: Patient Survey.JMIR cardio · 2023Article
- Patient judgments about hypertension control: the role of patient numeracy and graph literacy.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2022Article
- Provider Perspectives on Patient- and Provider-Facing High Blood Pressure Clinical Decision Support.Applied clinical informatics · 2022Article
- Home blood pressure data visualization for the management of hypertension: using human factors and design principles.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2021Article
- Home blood pressure data visualization for the management of hypertension: designing for patient and physician information needs.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2020Article
- Use of Enhanced Data Visualization to Improve Patient Judgments about Hypertension Control.Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making · 2020Article
- Impact of Home Blood Pressure Data Visualization on Hypertension Medical Decision Making in Primary Care.Annals of family medicineArticle
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Abstract
backgroundUncontrolled hypertension is a significant health problem in the United States, even though multiple drugs exist to effectively treat this chronic disease.
objectiveAs part of a larger project developing data visualizations to support shared decision making about hypertension treatment, we conducted a series of studies to understand how perceptions of hypertension control were impacted by data variations inherent in the visualization of blood pressure (BP) data.
methodsIn 3 Web studies, participants (internet sample of patients with hypertension) reviewed a series of vignettes depicting patients with hypertension; each vignette included a graph of a patient's BP. We examined how data visualizations that varied by BP mean and SD (Study 1), the pattern of change over time (Study 2), and the presence of extreme values (Study 3) affected patients' judgments about hypertension control and the need for a medication change.
resultsParticipants' judgments about hypertension control were significantly influenced by BP mean and SD (Study 1), data trends (whether BP was increasing or decreasing over time-Study 2), and extreme values (ie, outliers-Study 3).
conclusionsPatients' judgment about hypertension control is influenced both by factors that are important predictors of hypertension related-health outcomes (eg, BP mean) and factors that are not (eg, variability and outliers). This study highlights the importance of developing data visualizations that direct attention toward clinically meaningful information.
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