Evaluation of Patient-Friendly Diagnosis Clarifications in a Hospital Patient Portal.

ABSTRACT:

Background

 Medical data can be difficult to comprehend for patients, but only a limited number of patient-friendly terms and definitions are available to clarify medical concepts. Therefore, we developed an algorithm that generalizes diagnoses to more general concepts that do have patient-friendly terms and definitions in SNOMED CT. We implemented the generalizations, and diagnosis clarifications with synonyms and definitions that were already available, in the problem list of a hospital patient portal.

Objective

 We aimed to assess the extent to which the clarifications cover the diagnoses in the problem list, the extent to which clarifications are used and appreciated by patient portal users, and to explore differences in viewing problems and clarifications between subgro

SUBMITTER: van Mens HJT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10284629 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature