Table 2.

Quality of Informed Consent Collected Digitally (QuICCDig) themes and questions produced.

Theme	Study	Question
Ability to complete the task	[29,35]	“Were you able to successfully complete your e-consultation?”
Perceived ease of use	[14,15]	“How easy did you find it to complete your e-consultation?”
Perceived quality of description and explanation of processes and how they work	[34-37]	To be asked before the main body of the study, alongside the demographic questions “What do you think happens during an e-consultation, and where does the information go?” Asked with the rest of the QuICCDig questions after the main body “Did you get an explanation of what an e-consultation involves?” “How well do you feel you understand e-consultations now?” “Did your understanding change from what you thought happened in an e-consultation before? If so, what changed?”
Objective understanding of processes and how they work	[35,38]	“How long will your consultation data be stored?” “Which of the below might have access to some data collected during the consultation? [Select multiple: Me, my healthcare provider, other healthcare providers, the company that runs the consultation software, Google, Facebook].”
Why it is being done and the benefits to the patient	[35-38]	For each group identified in the question about who will have access to consultation data “Why will NAME have access to your data?”
Risks to the patient inherent to the procedure	[34,36-38]	“Which of the below are risks involved in the e-consultation process?”
Alternatives	[34,36-38]	“Do you remember being told about the alternatives to using an e-consultation?” If yes, “What alternatives were there?”
Recollections of consent	[34,35]	“Do you remember making any privacy-related decisions during your e-consultation?” If yes, “What do you remember deciding?”
Effect on privacy and confidentiality	[37]	“What impact will this e-consultation have on the confidentiality of your medical records?”
Degree of satisfaction with the decision-making and consent process	[34,37,39]	“How satisfied with the decision-making process for whether you wanted to continue with an e-consultation were you?”
Whether the patient knew who to ask questions to	[34,37]	“If you had questions about how your e-consultation would work, or how your data would be used, who would you ask?”
How to revoke consent	[35]	“If you wanted to change your mind about your e-consultation data being used, what would you do?”
Patient’s feeling of involvement with the process	[34,35,39]	“To what extent did you feel informed and involved with the process of consenting for your e-consultation? [Select one: Not at all, Somewhat, Enough, More than enough, Too much]”
Anything the patient felt was missing	[35]	“Was there anything else you would have liked to have known that you weren’t told about?”