Care Partner Engagement in Secure Messaging Between Patients With Diabetes and Their Clinicians: Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patient engagement with secure messaging (SM) via digital patient portals has been associated with improved diabetes outcomes, including increased patient satisfaction and better glycemic control. Yet, disparities in SM uptake exist among older patients and racial and ethnic underserved groups. Care partners (family members or friends) may provide a means for mitigating these disparities; however, it remains unclear whether and to what extent care partners might enhance SM use.

Objective

We aim to examine whether SM use differs among older patients with diabetes based on the involvement of care partner proxies.

Methods

This is a substudy of the ECLIPPSE (Employing Computational Linguistics to Improve Patient-Provider Secure Emails) project, a cohort study t

SUBMITTER: Semere W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10891488 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature