Validation of a brief scale to assess ambulatory patients' perceptions of reading visit notes: a scale development study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To develop and evaluate the validity of a scale to assess patients' perceived benefits and risks of reading ambulatory visit notes online (open notes).

Design

Four studies were used to evaluate the construct validity of a benefits and risks scale. Study 1 refined the items; study 2 evaluated underlying factor structure and identified the items; study 3 evaluated study 2 results in a separate sample; and study 4 examined factorial invariance of the developed scale across educational subsamples.

Setting

Ambulatory care in three large health systems in the USA.

Participants

Participants in three US health systems who responded to one of two online surveys asking about benefits and risks of reading visit notes: a psychometrics survey of primary care pati

SUBMITTER: Wright JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7577023 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature