An iconic language for the graphical representation of medical concepts.

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
Jean-Baptiste LamyAlain Venot

Abstract

Many medication errors are encountered in drug prescriptions, which would not occur if practitioners could remember the drug properties. They can refer to drug monographs to find these properties, however drug monographs are long and tedious to read during consultation. We propose a two-step approach for facilitating access to drug monographs. The first step, presented here, is the design of a graphical language, called VCM. The VCM graphical language was designed using a small number of graphical primitives and combinatory rules. VCM was evaluated over 11 volunteer general practitioners to assess if the language is easy to learn, to understand and to use. Evaluators were asked to register their VCM training time, to indicate the meaning of VCM icons and sentences, and to answer clinical questions related to randomly generated drug monograph-like documents, supplied in text or VCM format. VCM can represent the various signs, diseases, physiological states, life habits, drugs and tests described in drug monographs. Grammatical rules make it possible to generate many icons by combining a small number of primitives and reusing simple icons to build more complex ones. Icons can be organized into simple sentences to express drug rec...Continue Reading

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Citations

Mar 13, 2014·BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making·Nicolas GriffonStefan J Darmoni
Aug 28, 2014·BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making·Suzanne PereiraJean-Baptiste Lamy
Mar 22, 2014·Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA·Nicolas GriffonStéfan J Darmoni
May 31, 2015·BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making·Maia IordatiiCatherine Duclos
Sep 15, 2012·Journal of Biomedical Informatics·Jean-Baptiste LamyCatherine Duclos
Nov 11, 2017·Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA·Kristen MillerRyan Arnold
Nov 22, 2019·Medical Humanities·Philippa Morag Lyon, Martha Turland
Jun 12, 2021·Journal of Medical Internet Research·Ronni MadarRosy Tsopra

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JAVASCRIPT
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UVAL
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