Analysis of Internet Usage Among Cancer Patients in a County Hospital Setting: A Quality Improvement Initiative
| Autor: | Madhu Rao, Lisa Lilley, Valorie Harvey, Xian Jin Xie, Julie Dreadin-Pulliam, Ann Marilyn Leitch, Sakshi Mathur, Lucy Wallace, Roshni Rao, William Lodrigues |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Quality management Multivariate analysis business.product_category Computer applications to medicine. Medical informatics Population R858-859.7 Ethnic group patient education quality improvement Nursing medicine Internet access cancer education education.field_of_study Original Paper Internet Internet research business.industry General Medicine quality Family medicine Medicine The Internet business Patient education |
| Zdroj: | JMIR Research Protocols JMIR Research Protocols, Vol 3, Iss 2, p e26 (2014) |
| ISSN: | 1929-0748 |
| Popis: | BackgroundCancer is one of the most common diseases that patients research on the Internet. The Commission on Cancer (CoC) recommended that Parkland Memorial Hospital (PMH) improve the oncology services website. PMH is Dallas County’s public health care facility, serving a largely uninsured, minority population. Most research regarding patient Internet use has been conducted in insured, Caucasian populations, raising concerns that the needs of PMH patients may not be extrapolated from available data. The PMH Cancer Committee, therefore, adopted a quality improvement initiative to understand patients’ Internet usage. ObjectiveThe objective of the study was to obtain and analyze data regarding patients’ Internet usage in order to make targeted improvements to the oncology services section of the institutional website. MethodsA task force developed an 11-question survey to ascertain what proportion of our patients have Internet access and use the Internet to obtain medical information as well as determine the specific information sought. Between April 2011 and August 2011, 300 surveys were administered to newly diagnosed cancer patients. Multivariate analyses were performed. ResultsOf 300 surveys, 291 were included. Minorities, primarily African-American and Hispanic, represented 78.0% (227/291) of patients. Only 37.1% (108/291) of patients had Internet access, most (256/291, 87.9%) having access at home. Younger patients more commonly had Internet access, with a mean age of 47 versus 58 years for those without (P |
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