Allard Corey T, Krasowski Matthew D
Department of Pathology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, 200 Hawkins Drive, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA.
Data Brief. 2021 Jan 30;35:106806. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2021.106806. eCollection 2021 Apr.
Electronic health record patient portals allow patients to access their own health data online and interact with the healthcare team. Many studies have focused on use of patient portals in the outpatient setting. Relatively less is known about use of patient portals for hospitalized patients. The data in this article include analysis of patient portal activation and utilization for adults hospitalized in 2018 at an academic medical center in a Midwestern state in the United States. Activation was assessed by percentage of patients who had activated their patient portal by the time of data review. Utilization of the patient portal was determined by whether patients or their legal proxies accessed one or more reports from diagnostic testing ordered during inpatient encounter(s) in 2018. The data include 826,843 diagnostic tests on 40,640 unique patients. Patient characteristics include sex, age, whether outpatient diagnostic tests were also performed in 2018, preferred language (English or non-English), health insurance status (private, public, or uninsured), self-declared race (White or non-White), and whether there was a legal proxy for the patient. Association of these covariates with patient portal activation and utilization were analyzed.
电子健康记录患者门户网站允许患者在线访问自己的健康数据，并与医疗团队进行互动。许多研究都集中在门诊环境中患者门户网站的使用上。对于住院患者使用患者门户网站的情况，人们了解得相对较少。本文中的数据包括对2018年在美国中西部一个州的一家学术医疗中心住院的成年患者的患者门户网站激活和使用情况的分析。通过在数据审查时已激活其患者门户网站的患者百分比来评估激活情况。患者门户网站的使用情况由患者或其法定代理人是否访问了2018年住院期间所做的一项或多项诊断测试报告来确定。这些数据包括对40,640名不同患者进行的826,843项诊断测试。患者特征包括性别、年龄、2018年是否也进行了门诊诊断测试、首选语言（英语或非英语）、健康保险状况（私人保险、公共保险或无保险）、自我申报的种族（白人或非白人）以及患者是否有法定代理人。分析了这些协变量与患者门户网站激活和使用之间的关联。
