Division of General Internal Medicine & Health Services Research, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024, United States.
UCLA Health Information Technology, UCLA Health, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States.
J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2023 Nov 17;30(12):2028-2035. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocad164.
Patient portals are increasingly used to recruit patients in research studies, but communication response rates remain low without tactics such as financial incentives or manual outreach. We evaluated a new method of study enrollment by embedding a study information sheet and HIPAA authorization form (HAF) into the patient portal preCheck-in (where patients report basic information like allergies).
Eligible patients who enrolled received an after-visit patient-reported outcomes survey through the patient portal. No additional recruitment/messaging efforts were made.
A total of 386 of 843 patients completed preCheck-in, 308 of whom signed the HAF and enrolled in the study (37% enrollment rate). Of 93 patients who were eligible to receive the after-visit survey, 45 completed it (48% completion rate).
Enrollment and survey completion rates were higher than what is typically seen with recruitment by patient portal messaging, suggesting that preCheck-in recruitment can enhance research study recruitment and warrants further investigation.
患者门户越来越多地用于在研究中招募患者,但如果没有财务激励或手动外展等策略,沟通回复率仍然很低。我们通过将研究信息表和 HIPAA 授权表(HAF)嵌入患者门户预检(患者报告过敏等基本信息的地方)来评估一种新的研究入组方法。
符合条件的入组患者通过患者门户收到了就诊后患者报告的结果调查。没有进行额外的招募/消息传递工作。
共有 843 名患者中的 386 名完成了预检,其中 308 名签署了 HAF 并入组研究(入组率为 37%)。在 93 名有资格接受就诊后调查的患者中,有 45 名完成了调查(完成率为 48%)。
入组率和调查完成率高于通过患者门户消息传递通常看到的招募率,这表明预检可以增强研究招募,并值得进一步研究。