ComprehENotes, an Instrument to Assess Patient Reading Comprehension of Electronic Health Record Notes: Development and Validation.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Patient portals are widely adopted in the United States and allow millions of patients access to their electronic health records (EHRs), including their EHR clinical notes. A patient's ability to understand the information in the EHR is dependent on their overall health literacy. Although many tests of health literacy exist, none specifically focuses on EHR note comprehension. OBJECTIVE:The aim of this paper was to develop an instrument to assess patients' EHR note comprehension. METHODS:We identified 6 common diseases or conditions (heart failure, diabetes, cancer, hypertension, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and liver failure) and selected 5 representative EHR notes for each disease or condition. One note that did not contain natural language text was removed. Question

SUBMITTER: Lalor JP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5943623 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature