Using a Patient Internet Portal to Prevent Adverse Drug Events

Abstract

Internet portals have the potential to enhance patient-physician communication. However, additional development is required to demonstrate that such interventions can improve medication safety or health-care utilization.

The Use and Effects of Electronic Health Tools for Patient Self-Monitoring and Reporting of Outcomes Following Medication Use: Systematic Review (Preprint)

“…The remaining five trials all included both adult and elderly participants. One focused on patients with depression [21], Two on patients with type 2 diabetes [13,16], and two on medication safety and use, including AEs [20,22].…”

“…In three studies, use of an ehealth tool in the intervention group was compared to usual care plus links to relevant websites [18,19,22]. Simon et al [21] compared their ehealth tool and online messaging system to usual care with online messaging between patients and health care providers.…”

“…Only three studies had a direct focus on medication use [14,20,22]. The other seven studies included either a medication-specific component or functionality within the ehealth tool (n = 6) [15][16][17][18][19][20]21], or reported on medication use and changes following tracking of symptoms, adverse effects, and clinical outcomes during the study period (n = 4) [13,[23][24][25].…”

“…Ten of the included articles were RCTs [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22], and three were single-arm cohort studies [23][24][25]. Twelve studies were conducted in the United States [14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25], and one was conducted in South Korea [13].…”

“…Twelve studies were conducted in the United States [14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25], and one was conducted in South Korea [13]. Dates of publication ranged from 2005 to 2015.…”