Diabetes care providers' opinions and working methods after four years of experience with a diabetes patient web portal; a survey among health care providers in general practices and an outpatient clinic

Autor: Rimke C. Vos, Maaike C.M. Ronda, Lioe Ting Dijkhorst-Oei, Guy E.H.M. Rutten
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
Předmět:
Adult
Male
Diabetes self-management
medicine.medical_specialty
020205 medical informatics
Attitude of Health Personnel
Health Personnel
General Practice
02 engineering and technology
Physician attitudes
Ambulatory Care Facilities
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Patient Portals
Diabetes mellitus
Health care
Diabetes Mellitus
0202 electrical engineering
electronic engineering
information engineering

medicine
Diabetes portal
Humans
Outpatient clinic
In patient
030212 general & internal medicine
Quality of care
Health Education
Response rate (survey)
Type 1 diabetes
lcsh:R5-920
E-health
Information Dissemination
business.industry
Self-Management
Communication
Patient Preference
Patient web portal
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Telemedicine
Public Opinion
Family medicine
Female
Diabetic patient
business
lcsh:Medicine (General)
Family Practice
Research Article
Zdroj: BMC Family Practice, Vol 19, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2018)
BMC FAMILY PRACTICE, 19
BMC Family Practice, 19(1). BioMed Central
BMC Family Practice
ISSN: 1471-2296
Popis: Background To gain insight into the opinions and working methods of diabetes care providers after using a diabetes web portal for 4 years in order to understand the role of the provider in patients’ web portal use. Methods Survey among physicians and nurses from general practices and an outpatient clinic, correlated with data from the common web portal. Results One hundred twenty-eight questionnaires were analysed (response rate 56.6%). Responders’ mean age was 46.2 ± 9.8 years and 43.8% were physicians. The majority was of opinion that the portal improves patients’ diabetes knowledge (90.6%) and quality of care (72.7%). Although uploading glucose diary (93.6%) and patient access to laboratory and clinical notes (91.2 and 71.0%) were considered important, these features were recommended to patients in only 71.8 and 19.5% respectively. 64.8% declared they informed their patients about the portal and 45.3% handed-out the information leaflet and website address. The portal was especially recommended to type 1 diabetes patients (78.3%); those on insulin (84.3%) and patients aged
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