Understanding Patient Questions about their Medical Records in an Online Health Forum: Opportunity for Patient Portal Design. Reynolds, T. L., Ali, N., McGregor, E., O’Brien, T., Longhurst, C., Rosenberg, A. L., Rudkin, S. E., & Zheng, K. In AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings, pages 1468–1477, 2017. ![Understanding Patient Questions about their Medical Records in an Online Health Forum: Opportunity for Patient Portal Design [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Paper abstract bibtex There are many benefits of online patient access to their medical records through technologies such as patient portals. However, patients often have difficulties understanding the clinical data presented in portals. In response, increasingly, patients go online to make sense of this data. One commonly used online resource is health forums. In this pilot study, we focus on one type of clinical data, laboratory results, and one popular forum, MedHelp. We examined patient question posts that contain laboratory results to gain insights into the nature of these questions and of the answers. Our analyses revealed a typology of confusion (i.e., topics of their questions) and potential gaps in traditional healthcare supports (i.e., patients’ requests and situational factors), as well as the supports patients may gain through the forum (i.e., what the community provides). These results offer preliminary evidence of opportunities to redesign patient portals, and will inform our future work.
@inproceedings{reynolds_understanding_2017,
title = {Understanding {Patient} {Questions} about their {Medical} {Records} in an {Online} {Health} {Forum}: {Opportunity} for {Patient} {Portal} {Design}},
shorttitle = {Understanding {Patient} {Questions} about their {Medical} {Records} in an {Online} {Health} {Forum}},
url = {https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5977702/},
abstract = {There are many benefits of online patient access to their medical records through technologies such as patient portals. However, patients often have difficulties understanding the clinical data presented in portals. In response, increasingly, patients go online to make sense of this data. One commonly used online resource is health forums. In this pilot study, we focus on one type of clinical data, laboratory results, and one popular forum, MedHelp. We examined patient question posts that contain laboratory results to gain insights into the nature of these questions and of the answers. Our analyses revealed a typology of confusion (i.e., topics of their questions) and potential gaps in traditional healthcare supports (i.e., patients’ requests and situational factors), as well as the supports patients may gain through the forum (i.e., what the community provides). These results offer preliminary evidence of opportunities to redesign patient portals, and will inform our future work.},
urldate = {2024-01-15},
booktitle = {{AMIA} {Annual} {Symposium} {Proceedings}},
author = {Reynolds, Tera L. and Ali, Nida and McGregor, Emma and O’Brien, Trish and Longhurst, Christopher and Rosenberg, Andrew L. and Rudkin, Scott E. and Zheng, Kai},
year = {2017},
pmid = {29854216},
pmcid = {PMC5977702},
keywords = {notion},
pages = {1468--1477},
}
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