Patient Portals to Support Care Partner Engagement in Adolescent and Adult Populations: A Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Family and other unpaid care partners may bridge accessibility challenges in interacting with the patient portal, but the extent and nature of this involvement is not well understood.

Objective

To inform an emerging research agenda directed at more purposeful inclusion of care partners within the context of digital health equity by (1) quantifying care partners' uptake and use of the patient portal in adolescent and adult patients, (2) identifying factors involving care partners' portal use across domains of the System Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety model, and (3) assessing evidence of perceived or actual outcomes of care partners' portal use.

Evidence review

Following Arksey and O'Malley's methodologic framework, a scoping review of manuscripts

SUBMITTER: Gleason KT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9857556 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature