입원생활 안내문의 효율적인 정보 전달을 위한디자인 가이드라인 제안

Abstract

Background Recently medical services have changed to become more patient-centered than doctor-centered. Among various medical services, information materials for inpatients have long been a subject of research in the field of healthcare administration in order to improve the quality of medical care within hospitals. The guidebook for inpatients, however, should contain more patient-centered information tailored to the characteristics of the inpatients. Moreover, inpatient guidebook should provide visualized nursing information for easy and fast comprehension of the users. Methods Thus the purpose of this study is to propose a guideline for inpatient guidebook on life in the hospital, based on an analysis on inpatient guidebook currently in use and on the results of a survey on users’ opinion. Result This study selected the information to be included in inpatient guidebook and set the number of preferred items and their forms to design the material by taking visual factors such as colors, typefaces, icons and layout into consideration. Conclusion Further, for an objective verification of the design, this study conducted a usability evaluation and discovered that the users experienced no extreme discomfort in reading the improved informational material. This study arrived at a positive conclusion that the improved design was systematic in classifying the information by effectively delivering information to its users.