Do you want to receive bad news through your patient accessible electronic health record?: A national survey on receiving bad news in an era of digital health
2022 (English)In: Proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on Health Information Management Research / [ed] Peter Bath; Päivi Jokela; Laura Sbaffi, Kalmar: Linnaeus University; University of Sheffield , 2022Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Despite the fact that patient accessible electronic health records (PAEHRs) have been around for manyyears in several countries, there is a lack of research investigating patient´ preferences for receiving badnews, including through PAEHRs. Little is also known about the characteristics of the patients who preferto receive bad news through the PAEHR in terms of e.g. medical diagnosis, age and educational level.This study, based on a national patient survey in Sweden (N=2587), investigated this. Results showthat, generally, receiving bad news by reading in the PAEHR is still among the least preferred options.Additionally, a higher proportion of men want to receive bad news in the PAEHR compared to women(p=0.001), and the same goes for those who are not working/have worked in healthcare (p=0.007). Aneffect of disease groups was also found, showing that diabetes patients in particular, want to receivebad news through the PAEHR.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Kalmar: Linnaeus University; University of Sheffield , 2022.
Keywords [en]
abnormal test results, bad news, patient accessible electronic health record, patient, physician
National Category
Information Systems
Research subject
Information Systems
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:his:diva-19486DOI: 10.15626/ishimr.2020.17ISBN: 978-91-89081-09-3 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:his-19486DiVA, id: diva2:1530184
Conference
The 18th International Symposium on Health Information Management Research, iSHIMR, Using digital information for better patient health, care and well-being, Kalmar, Sweden (Online) 17-18 October 2020
Note
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
2021-02-222021-02-222022-05-05Bibliographically approved