Investigation of the Use of a Family Health History Application in Genetic Counseling

The paper-based pedigree is the current standard for family health history (FHH) documentation in genetic counseling. Several tools for electronic capture of family health data have been developed to improve re-use and accessibility, data quality and standardization, ease of updating, and integratio...

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Published in:Journal of genetic counseling 2018-04, Vol.27 (2), p.392-405
Main Authors: Tipsword, Meghan L., White, Peter S., Spaeth, Christine G., Ittenbach, Richard F., Myers, Melanie F.
Format: Article
Language:English
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Access
Accuracy
Biomedical and Life Sciences
Biomedicine
Clinical Psychology
Computerized medical records
Consanguineous marriage
Consanguinity
Data processing
Data quality
Documentation
Electronic medical records
Ethics
Family health history
Family medical history
Genetic counseling
Grandparents
Gynecology
Health information
Human Genetics
Medical records
Patients
Pedigree
Proband
Professional Issues
Public Health
Relatives
Risk assessment
Standardization
System usability scale
Usability
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Summary:The paper-based pedigree is the current standard for family health history (FHH) documentation in genetic counseling. Several tools for electronic capture of family health data have been developed to improve re-use and accessibility, data quality and standardization, ease of updating, and integration with electronic medical records. One such tool, the tablet-based Proband application, provides a flexible approach to data capture in dynamic and diverse clinical settings. This study compared Proband FHH collection to paper-based methods and investigated the usability of Proband in a clinical setting. After one use by 23 genetic counselors and students, Proband had 91% accuracy with a FHH audio scenario, which was significantly less ( p  
ISSN:1059-7700
1573-3599
DOI:10.1007/s10897-017-0196-2