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Background Information on medical services is provided through the hospital website recently, depending on the growth of the medical industry. The hospital website uses pictograms as one of the methods to communicate medical information, but lacks relevant guidelines or principles. Therefore, it is necessary to establish the production principles for the pictograms available on the hospital website.
Methods Explore the production principles of Pictogram for Public and Safety through relevant studies. Out of these principles, items that were not suitable for use in hospitals were excluded from the hospital websites, and only the items needed were presented in principle. Based on the production principles presented in this study, the utilization of the pictogram of the five largest hospital websites was identified. So we conforms how much it corresponds to the principles. Result As a result of analysis by hospitals, the most relevant hospitals were Seoul Asan Hospital, and the other hospitals were Seoul National University Hospital. According to the analysis of items in the principles, items that are best suited to the principles presented are geometrical construction, template layout and line thickness, and the incongruent item is consistency of graphic symbols.
Conclusion This study was meant to provide a criterion for guidance to assist in using the pictogram for medical information of hospital websites. |
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Key Words |
픽토그램, 병원 웹사이트, 제작 원칙, Pictogram, Hospital Website, Production Principles |
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