Abstract
When new drugs come onto the market, physicians have to decide whether they will consider the new drug for their future prescriptions. However, there is no absolute “right” decision: it depends on the physician’s opinion, practice and patient base. Here, we propose a visual approach for supporting this decision using iconic, interactive and graphical presentation techniques for facilitating the comparison of a new drug with already existent drugs. By comparing the drug properties, the physician is aided in his decision task.
We designed a prototype containing the properties of 4 new drugs and 22 “comparator” drugs. We presented the resulting system to a group of physicians. Preliminary evaluation results showed that this approach allowed physicians to make a decision when they were lacking information about the new drug, and to change their mind if they were overconfident in the new drug.
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This work was funded by the French drug agency (ANSM, Agence Nationale de Sécurité du Médicament et des produits de santé) through the VIIIP project (AAP-2012-013).
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Lamy, JB., Ugon, A., Berthelot, H., Favre, M. (2017). A Visual Decision Support System for Helping Physicians to Make A decision on New Drugs. In: Linden, I., Liu, S., Colot, C. (eds) Decision Support Systems VII. Data, Information and Knowledge Visualization in Decision Support Systems. ICDSST 2017. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 282. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57487-5_1
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