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ArticleJournal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA2017

Using an inpatient portal to engage families in pediatric hospital care.

Michelle M Kelly, Peter L T Hoonakker, Shannon M Dean

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Article in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 67 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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67citing papers in PubMed, 7 pooled it
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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

67 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 111 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Michelle M KellyDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin mkelly@pediatrics.wisc.edu.
Peter L T HoonakkerCenter for Quality and Productivity Improvement, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Shannon M DeanDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin.
University of Wisconsin–Madison · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveAssess parent use and perceptions of an inpatient portal application on a tablet computer that provides information about a child's hospital stay.

methodsThis cross-sectional study was conducted with parents of children hospitalized on a medical/surgical unit at a tertiary children's hospital. From December 2014 to June 2015, parents were provisioned a tablet portal application to use throughout the hospitalization. The portal includes real-time hospital vitals, medications, schedules, lab results, education, health care team pictures/roles, and request and messaging functionalities. Portal use information was gathered from tablet metadata. Parents completed discharge surveys on portal satisfaction, use, and impact on their information needs, engagement, communication, error detection, and care safety and quality. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and qualitative content analysis.

resultsOver 6 months, 296 parents used the portal, sending 176 requests and 36 messages. No tablets were lost or damaged. The most used and liked features included vitals, medication list, health care team information, and schedules. Overall, parent survey respondents (90) were satisfied with the portal (90%), reporting that it was easy to use (98%), improved care (94%), and gave them access to information that helped them monitor, understand, make decisions, and care for their child. Many parents reported that portal use improved health care team communication (60%). Most perceived that portal use reduced errors in care (89%), with 8% finding errors in their child's medication list.

conclusionsOverall, parents were satisfied with the inpatient portal. Portals may engage parents in hospital care, facilitate parent recognition of medication errors, and improve perceptions of safety and quality.

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Attitude to HealthParentsPatient PortalsAdultComputers, HandheldCross-Sectional StudiesElectronic Health RecordsFemaleHospitalizationHospitals, PediatricHumansMaleProfessional-Family RelationsYoung Adultfamily-centered carehospital medicinepatient engagementpatient portalpediatrics

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PMID27301746
PMCPMC7654090
OpenAlexW2431053090

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