Publications by authors named "A S Hamblin"
Rationale & Objective: Dialysis patient care technicians (PCTs) provide essential, frontline care for patients receiving in-center hemodialysis. We qualitatively explored perceptions of the PCT job role, responsibilities, and training among current PCTs, non-PCT dialysis staff, and patients receiving hemodialysis.
Study Design: Focus group study.
Objective: Despite interest in optimizing the electronic health record (EHR) to facilitate chronic disease care for conditions like rheumatoid arthritis (RA), progress in this area has been slow. EHR sidecar applications offer one solution, but little guidance exists to facilitate their successful development, deployment, and maintenance in the healthcare setting. We aimed to provide a roadmap for how to develop and deploy an EHR sidecar application based on our experience building a new EHR-integrated, patient-facing visualization tool that displayed disease outcomes to RA patients during a clinical visit (the "RA PRO dashboard") in a large academic health center.
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- A study was conducted to assess a new patient-facing dashboard ("RA PRO Dashboard") integrated into Electronic Health Records, designed to present rheumatoid arthritis (RA) outcomes, medications, and lab results during clinical visits.
- Feedback from 173 survey respondents indicated that the majority found the dashboard useful, with 79% wanting to see it again, and many felt it improved their understanding and communication with clinicians about their RA symptoms and treatments.
- In-depth interviews with a smaller group of patients highlighted that while the dashboard was viewed as a valuable tool for enhancing understanding and trust, some patients had concerns about the reliability of the outcome measures and the consistency of their use by clinicians.