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Use of a Patient Portal During Hospital Admissions to Surgical Services.
Article in AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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24 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Functionalities and Issues in the Implementation of Personal Health Records: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2021Pooled it
- Quantifying Patient Portal Use: Systematic Review of Utilization Metrics.Journal of medical Internet research · 2021Pooled it
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- Patient Portal Use Among Admitted Surgical Patients Following the 21st Century Cures Act.JAMA surgery · 2025Article
- Association Between Patient Portal Engagement and Weight Loss Outcomes in Patients After Bariatric Surgery: Longitudinal Observational Study Using Electronic Health Records.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Observational
- Enhanced Patient Portal Engagement Associated with Improved Weight Loss Outcomes in Post-Bariatric Surgery Patients.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2024Article
- Classification of patient- and clinician-generated secure messages using a theory-based taxonomy.Health science reports · 2021Article
- Hospitalized Patients Accessing Information on Prescribed Medications from the Bedside Terminal: A Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Exploring the Digital Divide: Age and Race Disparities in Use of an Inpatient Portal.Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association · 2020Article
- The Impact of Portal Satisfaction on Portal Use and Health-Seeking Behavior: Structural Equation Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2020Article
- Nurses' Expectations of an Inpatient Portal for Hospitalized Patients and Caregivers.Applied clinical informatics · 2019Article
- Improving Operating Room Efficiency.Current urology reports · 2019Review
- Disparities in Patient-Reported Interest in Web-Based Patient Portals: Survey at an Urban Academic Safety-Net Hospital.Journal of medical Internet research · 2019Article
- Care Delivered by Pediatric Surgical Specialties Through Patient Portal Messaging.The Journal of surgical research · 2019Article
- Technology Access, Technical Assistance, and Disparities in Inpatient Portal Use.Applied clinical informatics · 2019Article
- Patient portal adoption and use by hospitalized cancer patients: a retrospective study of its impact on adverse events, utilization, and patient satisfaction.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2018Article
- Framework for Evaluating and Implementing Inpatient Portals: a Multi-stakeholder Perspective.Journal of medical systems · 2018Article
- Training to Optimize Collaborative Use of an Inpatient Portal.Applied clinical informatics · 2018Article
- Patient portal use and hospital outcomes.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2018Article
- Usability evaluation of a commercial inpatient portal.International journal of medical informatics · 2018Article
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Abstract
Patient portal research has focused on medical outpatient settings, with little known about portal use during hospitalizations or by surgical patients. We measured portal adoption among patients admitted to surgical services over two years. Surgical services managed 37,025 admissions of 31,310 unique patients. One-fourth of admissions (9,362, 25.3%) involved patients registered for the portal. Registration rates were highest for admissions to laparoscopic/gastrointestinal (55%) and oncology/endocrine (50%) services. Portal use occurred during 1,486 surgical admissions, 4% of all and 16% of those registered at admission. Inpatient portal use was associated with patients who were white, male, and had longer lengths of stay (p < 0.01). Viewing health record data and secure messaging were the most commonly used functions, accessed in 4,836 (72.9%) and 1,626 (24.5%) user sessions. Without specific encouragement, hospitalized surgical patients are using our patient portal. The surgical inpatient setting may provide opportunities for patient engagement using patient portals.
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