Embedding Authorship Identity into a Portal-Based Agenda Setting Intervention to Support Older Adults and Care Partners.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients, families, and clinicians increasingly communicate through patient portals. Due to potential for multiple authors, clinicians need to know who is communicating with them. OurNotes is a portal-based pre-visit agenda setting questionnaire. This study adapted OurNotes to include a self-identification question to help clinicians interpret information authored by nonpatients.

Objectives

To describe adapted OurNotes use and clinician feedback to inform broader implementation.

Design

Evaluation of adapted OurNotes in a geriatric practice.

Participants

Older adults with a portal account and a clinic visit; eight clinicians were interviewed.

Intervention

OurNotes adaptation to clarify whether the author is the patient, the patient with help, o

SUBMITTER: Lum HD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11618549 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature