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Table 2 Opinions about the possible effects of the diabetes web portal. Percentages of respondents

From: 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

“I (strongly) agree that…..”

All providers

General practitioner

Nurse practitioner

Internist

Diabetes nurse

 

(N = 128)

(n = 45)

(n = 56)

(n = 11)

(n = 16)

P-value

a patient portal improves the quality of diabetes care

72.7

77.8

67.9

63.6

81.3

0.60

a patient portal can prevent medical mistakes

55.5

60.0

50.0

45.5

68.8

0.33

the diabetes knowledge that patients gain through the portal can lead to improved self-management

90.6

97.7

85.5a

81.8

100

0.30

a positive effect of the patient web portal is that patients can prepare themselves to the diabetes consultation

71.1

73.3

67.9

63.6

81.3

0.76

the use of a patient portal can lead to better self-management in three quarters of my patients

20.3

24.4

16.1

9.1

31.3

0.11

in a cardiometabolically well-controlled patient with portal access, one of the quarterly monitoring visits can be substituted by self-monitoring

69.5

68.9

73.2

45.5

75.0

0.10

  1. a1 answer missing