Following Bill Bartlett's presentation at FOCUS, which included some fascinating possibilities for what we could include in reports, we discussed how we can produce high quality reports.

The best way would be to study how different presentations affect the subsequent clinical decisions, but that's a big research topic, on which very little has been published.

The least we could do is to study what others have written on the subject.

IMHO the best starting point is Tufte's work:

http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/

http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Tufte

Has anyone redesigned their reports using this sort of thinking?

Jonathan












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