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JAMIA 2000;7:1-20 doi:10.1136/jamia.2000.0070001
  • The Practice of Informatics
  • Review

An Object-oriented Taxonomy of Medical Data Presentations

  1. Justin Starren,
  2. Stephen B Johnson
  1. Affiliation of the authors: Columbia University, New York, New York
  1. Correspondence and reprints: Justin Starren, MD, PhD, CPMC, DAP-1310, 161 Fort Washington Avenue, New York, NY 10032; e-mail: 〈starren{at}columbia.edu〉
  • Received 9 October 1997
  • Accepted 16 August 1999

Abstract

A variety of methods have been proposed for presenting medical data visually on computers. Discussion of and comparison among these methods have been hindered by a lack of consistent terminology. A taxonomy of medical data presentations based on object-oriented user interface principles is presented. Presentations are divided into five major classes—list, table, graph, icon, and generated text. These are subdivided into eight subclasses with simple inheritance and four subclasses with multiple inheritance. The various subclasses are reviewed and examples are provided. Issues critical to the development and evaluation of presentations are also discussed.

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  • This work was supported in part by grant LM07079-03 from the National Library of Medicine and by the New York State Science and Technology Foundation.

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