title: Nurses' Numeracy and Graphical Literacy: Informing Studies of Clinical Decision Support Interfaces.
abstract: We present findings of a comparative study of numeracy and graph literacy in a representative group of 60 practicing nurses. This article focuses on a fundamental concern related to the effectiveness of numeric information displayed in various features in the electronic health record during clinical workflow. Our findings suggest the need to consider numeracy and graph literacy when presenting numerical information as well as the potential for tailoring numeric display types to an individual's cognitive strengths.
authors: Department of Health Systems Science, College of Nursing (Drs Lopez, Sousa and Stifter), Department of Biobehavioral Health Science (Dr Wilkie), and Electronic Visualization Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering (Mr Febretti and Dr Johnson), University of Illinois at Chicago; and Department of Biobehavioral Nursing Science, College of Nursing (Drs Wilkie and Yao), and Department of Family, Community and Health Systems Science (Dr Keenan), University of Florida, Gainesville.
authors: Karen Dunn
authors: KD
authors: Lopez
authors: Diana J
authors: DJ
authors: Wilkie
authors: Yingwei
authors: Y
authors: Yao
authors: Vanessa
authors: V
authors: Sousa
authors: Alessandro
authors: A
authors: Febretti
authors: Janet
authors: J
authors: Stifter
authors: Andrew
authors: A
authors: Johnson
authors: Gail M
authors: GM
authors: Keenan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D032882:Comprehension; D003197:Computer Literacy; D003657:Decision Making; D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical; D057286:Electronic Health Records; D005260:Female; D057220:Health Literacy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008433:Mathematics; D008875:Middle Aged; D009726:Nurses; D011340:Problem Solving