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Nurses’ Numeracy and Graphical Literacy: Informing Studies of Clinical Decision Support Interfaces
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Nurses’ Numeracy and Graphical Literacy: Informing Studies of Clinical Decision Support Interfaces

Karen Dunn Lopez, Diana J. Wilkie, Yingwei Yao, Vanessa Sousa, Alessandro Febretti, Janet Stifter, Andrew Johnson and Gail M. Keenan
Journal of nursing care quality, Vol.31(2), pp.124-130
04/01/2016
DOI: 10.1097/NCQ.0000000000000149
PMCID: PMC4764393
PMID: 26323050
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/4764393View
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Abstract

We present findings of a comparative study of numeracy and graph literacy in a representative group of 60 practicing nurses. The paper focuses on a fundamental concern related to the effectiveness of numeric information displayed in various features in the electronic health record during clinical workflow. Our findings suggest the need to consider numeracy and graph literacy when presenting numerical information as well as the potential for tailoring numeric display types to individual’s cognitive strengths.
Clinical decision making electronic health records graphical literacy numeracy nurses

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