Usability Assessment of the Missouri Cancer Registry's Published Interactive Mapping Reports: Round Two.

Background: Health-related data's users have trouble understanding and interpreting combined statistical and mapping information. This is the second round of a usability study conducted after we modified and simplified our tested maps based on the first round's results.

Objective: To explore if the tested maps' usability improved by modifying the maps according to the first round's results.

Geographic Information Systems: Usability, Perception, and Preferences of Public Health Professionals.

Background: Analyzing and visualizing health-related databases using Geographic Information Systems (GISs) becomes essential in controlling many public health problems.

Objectives: To explore the perception and preferences of public health professionals (PHPs) about the usability of GISs in public health field.

Methods: For this scoping review, the investigators searched Medline Ovid, PubMed, IEEE, Scopus, and GeoBase databases.

Setting thresholds for quality indicators derived from MDS data for nursing home quality improvement reports: an update.

Background: Determining meaningful thresholds to reinforce excellent performance and flag potential problem areas in nursing home care is critical for preparing reports for nursing homes to use in their quality improvement programs. This article builds on the work of an earlier panel of experts that set thresholds for quality indicators (QIs) derived from Minimum Data Set (MDS) assessment data. Thresholds were now set for the revised MDS 2.