Background: The adherence of clinicians to clinical practice guidelines is known to be low, including for the management of COVID-19, due to their difficult use at the point of care and their complexity. Clinical decision support systems have been proposed to implement guidelines and improve adherence. One approach is to permit the navigation inside the recommendations, presented as a decision tree, but the size of the tree often limits this approach and may cause erroneous navigation, especially when it does not fit in a single screen.
Methods: We proposed an innovative visual interface to allow clinicians easily navigating inside decision trees for the management of COVID-19 patients. It associates a multi-path tree model with the use of the fisheye visual technique, allowing the visualization of large decision trees in a single screen. To evaluate the impact of this tool on guideline adherence, we conducted a randomized controlled trial in a near-real simulation setting, comparing the decisions taken by medical trainees using Orient-COVID with those taken with paper guidelines or without guidance, when performing on six realistic clinical cases.
Results: The results show that paper guidelines had no impact (p=0.97), while Orient-COVID significantly improved the guideline adherence compared to both other groups (p<0.0003). A significant impact of Orient-COVID was identified on several key points during the management of COVID-19: ordering troponin lab tests, prescribing anticoagulant and oxygen therapy. A multifactor analysis showed no difference between male and female participants.
Conclusions: The use of an interactive decision tree for the management of COVID-19 significantly improved the clinician adherence to guidelines. Future works will focus on the integration of the system to electronic health records and on the adaptation of the system to other clinical conditions.
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