Figure 1

Illustration of the organization of information in the prototype. (a) – Area 1 includes the trade name of the drug, its dose and form, and its indication. Area 2 represents the axes of the conceptual model in the form of a menu containing highly synthetic information; Area 3 shows the synthetic information; Area 4 includes information about the target population, actual benefit, improvement in actual benefit, approval date and comparator. (b) – The three levels of information detail (I – highly synthetic, II – synthetic, III – detailed). Area 1, Area 4 and Area 2 corresponding to Level I from (b) are always present. The level II of granularity is shown in Area 3 when the physician chooses a topic from the menu. From level II, the user can obtain level III of detail by clicking on the hypertext link.