ReviewApplied clinical informatics2021
U.S. COVID-19 State Government Public Dashboards: An Expert Review.
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24 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Centralized Multipatient Dashboards' Impact on Intensive Care Unit Clinician Performance and Satisfaction: A Systematic Review.Applied clinical informatics · 2024Pooled it
- Digital dashboards visualizing public health data: a systematic review.Frontiers in public health · 2023Pooled it
- Are interactive and tailored data visualizations effective in promoting flu vaccination among the elderly? Evidence from a randomized experiment.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2024Trial
- Lessons From the Community-Engaged, Data-Driven Selection of Evidence-Based Practice Strategies in the HEALing Communities Study.Journal of public health management and practice : JPHMPTrial
- Social vulnerability and spatial patterns of COVID-19 mortality: Global implications for respiratory health equity.PloS one · 2026Article
- Public Maternal Health Dashboards in the United States: Descriptive Assessment.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Article
- Lessons Learned From Developing Dashboards to Support Decision-Making for Community Opioid Response by Community Stakeholders: Mixed Methods and Multisite Study.JMIR human factors · 2024Article
- A Qualitative Study of Health Equity's Role in Community Coalition Development.Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education · 2024Article
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- National Public Health Dashboards: Protocol for a Scoping Review.JMIR research protocols · 2024Article
- Public Health Dashboards in Overdose Prevention: The Rhode Island Approach to Public Health Data Literacy, Partnerships, and Action.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Article
- Caribbean data-sharing initiatives: activities of the Eastern Caribbean Health Outcomes Research Network.Revista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health · 2024Article
- Engaging Multidisciplinary Clinical Users in the Design of an Artificial Intelligence-Powered Graphical User Interface for Intensive Care Unit Instability Decision Support.Applied clinical informatics · 2023Article
- Deploying geospatial visualization dashboards to combat the socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19.Environment and planning. B, urban analytics and city science · 2023Article
- Spatial Syndromic Surveillance and COVID-19 in the U.S.: Local Cluster Mapping for Pandemic Preparedness.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Policy responsiveness and institutions in a federal system: Analyzing variations in state-level data transparency and equity issues during the COVID-19 pandemic.International journal of disaster risk reduction : IJDRR · 2022Article
- The Importance of Data Visualization in Combating a Pandemic.American journal of public health · 2022Article
- Improving COVID-19 Research of University Hospitals in Germany: Formative Usability Evaluation of the CODEX Feasibility Portal.Applied clinical informatics · 2022Article
- Pandemic Response in the Clinical Laboratory: The Utility of Interactive Dashboards.Journal of pathology informatics · 2022Article
- Environmental scan of COVID-19 infection dashboards in the Florida public school system.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundIn the United States, all 50 state governments deployed publicly viewable dashboards regarding the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) to track and respond to the pandemic. States dashboards, however, reflect idiosyncratic design practices based on their content, function, and visual design and platform. There has been little guidance for what state dashboards should look like or contain, leading to significant variation.
objectivesThe primary objective of our study was to catalog how information, system function, and user interface were deployed across the COVID-19 state dashboards. Our secondary objective was to group and characterize the dashboards based on the information we collected using clustering analysis.
methodsFor preliminary data collection, we developed a framework to first analyze two dashboards as a group and reach agreement on coding. We subsequently doubled coded the remaining 48 dashboards using the framework and reviewed the coding to reach total consensus.
resultsAll state dashboards included maps and graphs, most frequently line charts, bar charts, and histograms. The most represented metrics were total deaths, total cases, new cases, laboratory tests, and hospitalization. Decisions on how metrics were aggregated and stratified greatly varied across dashboards. Overall, the dashboards were very interactive with 96% having at least some functionality including tooltips, zooming, or exporting capabilities. For visual design and platform, we noted that the software was dominated by a few major organizations. Our cluster analysis yielded a six-cluster solution, and each cluster provided additional insights about how groups of states engaged in specific practices in dashboard design.
conclusionOur study indicates that states engaged in dashboard practices that generally aligned with many of the goals set forth by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Essential Public Health Services. We highlight areas where states fall short of these expectations and provide specific design recommendations to address these gaps.
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