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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Appl Clin Inform 2022; 13(04): 971-982
DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-1757292
Letter to the Editor

User Experience Design for Adoption of Asthma Clinical Decision Support Tools

Emily Gao
1   University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States
,
Ilana Radparvar
1   University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States
,
Holly Dieu
2   Department of Pediatrics, University of California Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, United States
,
Mindy K. Ross
2   Department of Pediatrics, University of California Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, United States
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Funding This study was supported by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; National Institutes of Health; and National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (1K23HL148502-01A1).
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Background and Significance

Asthma affects over 200 million people worldwide and uncontrolled cases typically lead to the most morbidity.[1] Guidelines can improve asthma symptom control and patient outcomes, although their use in practice is suboptimal (e.g., <40% documented key components).[2] [3] [4] To improve these rates, approaches based on clinical informatics such as guideline-adherent computerized clinical decision support (CDS) tools have been attempted.[5] [6] [7] [8] These tools can provide standardized, personalized, and comprehensive care to improve outcomes.[9] [10] [11]

Asthma CDS tools have not been readily adopted into practice, thus reducing their effectiveness due to lack of use.[9] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] Reasons suggested for low uptake appear similar to general issues with computerized CDS[17] [18] [19] (e.g., poor workflow integration, negative end-user beliefs),[20] [21] [22] but there has not been an inventory of facilitators and barriers to use in the asthma CDS tool domain. Detailing this could improve the design process for asthma-specific computerized CDS tools by highlighting relevant aspects, centralizing knowledge about key features, and identifying the most effective implementation strategies.[23]

Protection of Human and Animal Subjects

There were no human subjects in this work.


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Publication History

Received: 19 May 2022

Accepted: 09 August 2022

Article published online:
12 October 2022

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