Trial reportThe European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care2007
Patients' willingness to pay for electronic communication with their general practitioner.
Trial report in The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
17 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Consumers' Willingness to Pay for eHealth and Its Influencing Factors: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2022Pooled it
- The Willingness to Pay for Telemedicine Among Patients With Chronic Diseases: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2022Pooled it
- The Empirical Foundations of Telemedicine Interventions in Primary Care.Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association · 2016Pooled it
- Patients' online access to their electronic health records and linked online services: a systematic review in primary care.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2015Pooled it
- Patients' online access to their electronic health records and linked online services: a systematic interpretative review.BMJ open · 2014Pooled it
- Email for clinical communication between patients/caregivers and healthcare professionals.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2012Pooled it
- Enhancing telehealth services development in Pakistani healthcare sectors through examining various medical service quality characteristics.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Willingness to Pay for Telemedicine Services Among Uninsured Individuals in Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Survey.International journal of general medicine · 2024Article
- Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on knowledge, perceptions, and effects of telemedicine among the general population of Pakistan: A national survey.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Patients' Online Access to Their Primary Care Electronic Health Records and Linked Online Services: Implications for Research and Practice.Journal of personalized medicine · 2015Article
- Awareness, experiences and perceptions of telehealth in a rural Queensland community.BMC health services research · 2015Article
- What keeps family physicians busy in Portugal? A multicentre observational study of work other than direct patient contacts.BMJ open · 2014Observational
- Assessing the Quality of Teleconsultations in a Store-And-Forward Telemedicine Network - Long-Term Monitoring Taking into Account Differences between Cases.Frontiers in public health · 2014Article
- Willingness-to-pay to avoid the time spent and discomfort associated with screening colonoscopy.Health economics · 2010Article
- Communication plays a critical role in web-based monitoring.Journal of diabetes science and technology · 2009Article
- Willingness to pay to sustain and expand National Health Insurance services in Taiwan.BMC health services research · 2008Article
- Interest in the use of computerized patient portals: role of the provider-patient relationship.Journal of general internal medicine · 2008Article
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Abstract
Despite the common use of electronic communication in other aspects of everyday life, its use between patients and health care providers has been slow to diffuse. Possible explanations are security issues and lack of payment mechanisms. This study investigated how patients value secure electronic access to their general practitioner (GP). One hundred and ninety-nine patients were asked an open-ended willingness-to-pay (WTP) question as part of a randomised controlled trial. We compared the WTP values between two groups of respondents; one group had had the opportunity to communicate electronically with their GP for a year and the other group had not. Fifty-two percent of the total sample was willing to pay for electronic GP contact. The group of patients with access revealed a significantly lower WTP than the group without such access. Possible explanations are that the system had fewer benefits than expected, a presence of hypothetical bias or simply a preference for face-to-face encounters.
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