title: An "infobutton" for enabling patients to interpret on-line Pap smear reports.
abstract: We describe the development of a prototype application that would allow patients with little or no medical background to understand their Pap smear reports. This information button, or "infobutton", is attached to on-line text reports describing Pap smear results present in a medical record system intended for patient access (PatCIS). The infobutton application generates an explanation of terms present in the report and a list of questions related to the terms in the report, which link to publicly accessible resources on the Web.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Baorto
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Cimino
mesh_terms: D003626:Data Display; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D065006:Papanicolaou Test; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D014584:User-Computer Interface; D014626:Vaginal Smears