TY  - JOUR
AU  - Yanovitzky, Itzhak
AU  - Stahlman, Gretchen
AU  - Quow, Justine
AU  - Ackerman, Matthew
AU  - Perry, Yehuda
AU  - Kim, Miriam
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/5/16
TI  - National Public Health Dashboards: Protocol for a Scoping Review
JO  - JMIR Res Protoc
SP  - e52843
VL  - 13
KW  - dashboard
KW  - scoping review
KW  - public health
KW  - design
KW  - development
KW  - implementation
KW  - evaluation
KW  - user need
KW  - protocol
KW  - data dashboards
KW  - audiences
KW  - audience
KW  - systematic treatment
KW  - public health data dashboards
KW  - PRISMA-ScR
KW  - snowballing techniques
KW  - gray literature sources
KW  - evidence-informed framework
KW  - framework
KW  - COVID-19
KW  - pandemic
AB  - Background: The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of robust public health data systems and the potential utility of data dashboards for ensuring access to critical public health data for diverse groups of stakeholders and decision makers. As dashboards are becoming ubiquitous, it is imperative to consider how they may be best integrated with public health data systems and the decision-making routines of diverse audiences. However, additional progress on the continued development, improvement, and sustainability of these tools requires the integration and synthesis of a largely fragmented scholarship regarding the purpose, design principles and features, successful implementation, and decision-making supports provided by effective public health data dashboards across diverse users and applications. Objective: This scoping review aims to provide a descriptive and thematic overview of national public health data dashboards including their purpose, intended audiences, health topics, design elements, impact, and underlying mechanisms of use and usefulness of these tools in decision-making processes. It seeks to identify gaps in the current literature on the topic and provide the first-of-its-kind systematic treatment of actionability as a critical design element of public health data dashboards. Methods: The scoping review follows the PRISMA-ScR (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Extension for Scoping Reviews) guidelines. The review considers English-language, peer-reviewed journal papers, conference proceedings, book chapters, and reports that describe the design, implementation, and evaluation of a public health dashboard published between 2000 and 2023. The search strategy covers scholarly databases (CINAHL, PubMed, Medline, and Web of Science) and gray literature sources and uses snowballing techniques. An iterative process of testing for and improving intercoder reliability was implemented to ensure that coders are properly trained to screen documents according to the inclusion criteria prior to beginning the full review of relevant papers. Results: The search process initially identified 2544 documents, including papers located via databases, gray literature searching, and snowballing. Following the removal of duplicate documents (n=1416), nonrelevant items (n=839), and items classified as literature reviews and background information (n=73), 216 documents met the inclusion criteria: US case studies (n=90) and non-US case studies (n=126). Data extraction will focus on key variables, including public health data characteristics; dashboard design elements and functionalities; intended users, usability, logistics, and operation; and indicators of usefulness and impact reported. Conclusions: The scoping review will analyze the goals, design, use, usefulness, and impact of public health data dashboards. The review will also inform the continued development and improvement of these tools by analyzing and synthesizing current practices and lessons emerging from the literature on the topic and proposing a theory-grounded and evidence-informed framework for designing, implementing, and evaluating public health data dashboards. International Registered Report Identifier (IRRID): DERR1-10.2196/52843 
SN  - 1929-0748
UR  - https://www.researchprotocols.org/2024/1/e52843
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2196/52843
UR  - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38753428
DO  - 10.2196/52843
ID  - info:doi/10.2196/52843
ER  -