Patient Portal Utilization Among Ethnically Diverse Low Income Older Adults: Observational Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patient portals can improve patient communication with providers, provide patients with greater health information access, and help improve patient decision making, if they are used. Because research on factors facilitating and limiting patient portal utilization has not been conceptually based, no leverage points have been indicated for improving utilization.

Objective

The primary objective for this analysis was to use a conceptual framework to determine potentially modifiable factors affecting patient portal utilization by older adults (aged 55 years and older) who receive care at clinics that serve low income and ethnically diverse communities. The secondary objective was to delineate how patient portal utilization is associated with perceived usefulness and us

SUBMITTER: Arcury TA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5705857 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature