Patient Judgments About Hypertension Control: The Role of Variability, Trends, and Outliers in Visualized Blood Pressure Data

Conclusions: Patients’ judgment about hypertension control is influenced both by factors that are important predictors of hypertension related-health outcomes (eg, BP mean) and factors that are not (eg, variability and outliers). This study highlights the importance of developing data visualizations that direct attention toward clinically meaningful information.

Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research - March 25, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Victoria Anne Shaffer Pete Wegier KD Valentine Jeffery L Belden Shannon M Canfield Sonal J Patil Mihail Popescu Linsey M Steege Akshay Jain Richelle J Koopman Source Type: research