Assessment of Prevalence of Adolescent Patient Portal Account Access by Guardians.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Patient portals can be configured to allow confidential communication for adolescents' sensitive health care information. Guardian access of adolescent patient portal accounts could compromise adolescents' confidentiality.

Objective

To estimate the prevalence of guardian access to adolescent patient portals at 3 academic children's hospitals.

Design, setting, and participants

A cross-sectional study to estimate the prevalence of guardian access to adolescent patient portal accounts was conducted at 3 academic children's hospitals. Adolescent patients (aged 13-18 years) with access to their patient portal account with at least 1 outbound message from their portal during the study period were included. A rule-based natural language processing algorithm was us

SUBMITTER: Ip W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8446820 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature