Access, interest, and attitudes toward electronic communication for health care among patients in the medical safety net.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Electronic and internet-based tools for patient-provider communication are becoming the standard of care, but disparities exist in their adoption among patients. The reasons for these disparities are unclear, and few studies have looked at the potential communication technologies have to benefit vulnerable patient populations.

Objective

To characterize access to, interest in, and attitudes toward internet-based communication in an ethnically, economically, and linguistically diverse group of patients from a large urban safety net clinic network.

Design

Observational, cross-sectional study

Participants

Adult patients (≥ 18 years) in six resource-limited community clinics in the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) MAIN MEASURES: Current e

SUBMITTER: Schickedanz A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3682038 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature