Systemic sclerosis & Raynaud's
Development of a Personalized Visualization and Analysis Tool to Improve Clinical Care in Complex Multisystem Diseases With Application to Scleroderma
Authors' conclusion
Systematic analysis and visualization of individual- and population-level data in a complex disease has potential to improve medical decision-making and warrants further study.
Study context
- Population
- Patients with scleroderma and rheumatologists7 patients · 4 rheumatologists
- Comparison
- Visualization and analysis tool (VAT) vs electronic medical record system
- Outcome
- Usability: data access by rheumatologists, VAT vs electronic medical record
Methodological detailsweb-based application, usability testing with patients and clinicians, internally cross-validated Bayesian multivariate mixed models
- Web-based application
- Usability testing with patients and clinicians
- Internally cross-validated Bayesian multivariate mixed models
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
- Data accessed with VAT vs electronic medical record
- 8.6 times more
- Time used with VAT
- 81.5% of the time
- Clicks with VAT
- two-thirds fewer
Original publication
Development of a Personalized Visualization and Analysis Tool to Improve Clinical Care in Complex Multisystem Diseases With Application to Scleroderma. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). Published 6 November 2025. doi:10.
Composed by AI from the published abstract and checked against it. How Briefs are made →