Evaluation of a pictograph enhancement system for patient instruction: a recall study.

CONCLUSIONS: Automated illustration is a novel approach to improve the comprehension and recall of discharge instructions. Our results showed a statistically significant in recall with automated illustrations. Subjects with no-colleague education and younger subjects appeared to benefit more from the illustrations than others.
PMID: 25301809 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association - October 16, 2014 Category: Information Technology Authors: Zeng-Treitler Q, Perri S, Nakamura C, Kuang J, Hill B, Bui DD, Stoddard GJ, Bray BE Tags: J Am Med Inform Assoc Source Type: research