Abstract
This demonstration project presents a hypermedia generator for interactive patient questionnaire creation and administration on the Macintosh® computer. It is designed for clinicians (non-programmers) who wish to construct and use computerized questionnaires to gather data directly from patients for use in research or clinical work. Computerized questionnaires have been studied for over 2 decades, but are little used in clinical medicine. Research shows them to be advantageous to clinicians and widely accepted by patients, but barriers to their use such as clinician resistance, cost, availability of questionnaires, and proven clinical utility must be overcome before their use will spread. MacQuestionnaire is software for the microcomputer designed to improve access to this tool among clinicians and to facilitate the production of questionnaires that can be shared among health providers. (Submitted 8/9/90)
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