Patients' choices regarding online access to laboratory, radiology and pathology test results on a hospital patient portal.

ABSTRACT: The disclosure of online test results (i.e., laboratory, radiology and pathology results) on patient portals can vary from immediate disclosure (in real-time) via a delay of up to 28 days to non-disclosure. Although a few studies explored patient opinions regarding test results release, we have no insight into actual patients' preferences. To address this, we allowed patients to register their choices on a hospital patient portal. Our research question was: When do patients want their test results to be disclosed on the patient portal and what are the reasons for these choices? We used a mixed methods sequential explanatory design that included 1) patient choices on preferred time delay to test result disclosure on the patient portal for different medical specialties (N = 4592) and 2) semi

SUBMITTER: Hulter P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9897579 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature