How Do Patients Want Us to Use the Computer During Medical Encounters?-A Discrete Choice Experiment Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Primary care physicians (PCPs) now widely use electronic health records (EHRs) during medical encounters. Experts in clinical communication issued recommendations for a patient-centered use of EHRs. However, they have never been validated by patients themselves.

Objective

To explore patients' preferences regarding physicians' EHR-related behaviors.

Design

Discrete choice experiment study.

Patients

French-speaking patients waiting for a medical consultation at two outpatient clinics in Geneva, Switzerland.

Main measures

We invited patients to watch videos displaying 2 or 3 variations of four specific EHR-related behaviors and asked them to indicate which one they preferred. EHR-related behaviors were (1) typing: continuous/intermittent/handwrit

SUBMITTER: Lanier C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8298679 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature