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. 2015 Jan 7;3(1):e4. doi: 10.2196/medinform.3503

Table 2.

Synthesis of occurrences’ numbers and references for collected data items.

Theme and category Frequency References
Decision support task


Prevention 1 [85]

Diagnosis 6 [73,78,84,85,87,89]

Pathway 8 [72,73,81,82,84,85,90,91]

Medication 10 [74-77,79,80,83,85,86,88]

Patient education 1 [73]

Continuity of care 1 [82]

Self-management 0
Decision support technology


Data visualization techniques 4 [77,83,84,89]

Social network techniques 1 [82]

International standards 5 [73,75,82,83,85]

Machine learning 1 [87]

Natural language processing 2 [77,78]

Knowledge-based system 17 [72-77,79-81,83-86,88-91]

Mobile technologies 0
Contextual information


Patient clinical notes 19 [72-76,78-91]

Laboratory results 4 [74-76,83]

Comorbidities 2 [75,83]

Medications 4 [74,75,77,83]

Clinician knowledge 11 [76,77,81-83,85-90]

Clinical practice guidelines 13 [72,73,75,76,79-85,90,91]
Decision maker(s)


Nurse 2 [76,82]

Specialist doctor 6 [75,77,82,87,89,91]

Generalist doctor 13 [73,77,79-86,88,90,91]

Pharmacist 1 [74]

Patient 0

Not specified 2 [72,78]
Diseases


Obesity 3 [78,84,85]

Diabetes 5 [80,84-86,88]

Cardiovascular diseases 9 [73,75,79-81,84-86,88]

Chronic respiratory diseases 2 [80,85]

Chronic kidney diseases 2 [84,85]

Chronic neurological conditions 3 [85,87,91]

Mental health disorders 1 [85]

Chronic musculoskeletal diseases 2 [80,85]

Other 8 [76,80,83-85,89,90]

Not specified 4 [72,74,77,82]

User interface considerations


Interactivity 4 [73,75,77,89]

User-centered design 1 [84]

Summarization 3 [73,77,83]

Workflow graphs 2 [75,90]

Not specified 13 [73,74,76,78-82,85-88,91]
Evaluation


Impact evaluation (service performance metrics) 1 [84]

Impact evaluation (survey) 1 [84]

Controlled comparison (expert panel) 4 [72,86,88,89]

Controlled comparison (survey) 2 [82,85]

Controlled comparison (simulation) 2 [78,87]

Controlled comparison (human vs system) 1 [74]

Controlled comparison (new vs old system) 1 [77]

No evaluation 2 [76,81]

Not specified 7 [72,75,79,80,83,90,91]