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Patients’ moral attitudes toward electronic health records: Survey study with vignettes and statements.
- Source :
- Health Informatics Journal; Jan-Mar2021, Vol. 27 Issue 1, p1-14, 14p
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- Patient access to electronic health records gives rise to ethical questions related to the patient-doctorcomputer relationship. Our study aims to examine patients’ moral attitudes toward a shared EHR, with a focus on autonomy, information access, and responsibility. A de novo self-administered questionnaire containing three vignettes and 15 statements was distributed among patients in four different settings. A total of 1688 valid questionnaires were collected. Patients’ mean age was 51 years, 61% was female, 50% had a higher degree (college or university), and almost 50% suffered from a chronic illness. Respondents were hesitant to hide sensitive information electronically from their care providers. They also strongly believed hiding information could negatively affect the quality of care provided. Participants preferred to be informed about negative test results in a face-to-face conversation, or would have every patient decide individually how they want to receive results. Patients generally had little experience using patient portal systems and expressed a need for more information on EHRs in this survey. They tended to be hesitant to take up control over their medical data in the EHR and deemed patients share a responsibility for the accuracy of information in their record. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- RESEARCH
ETHICS
RESEARCH evaluation
PHYSICIAN-patient relations
MULTIPLE regression analysis
PATIENTS' attitudes
TEST validity
AUTONOMY (Psychology)
RESEARCH funding
QUESTIONNAIRES
CASE studies
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
SCALE analysis (Psychology)
FACTOR analysis
ELECTRONIC health records
STATISTICAL correlation
DATA analysis software
THEMATIC analysis
MEDICAL record access control
LEGAL status of patients
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14604582
- Volume :
- 27
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Health Informatics Journal
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 150395743
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1460458220980039