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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Acad Radiol. 2015 Nov 25;23(2):237–244. doi: 10.1016/j.acra.2015.10.012

TABLE 1.

Patient Answers to Survey Questions

Survey Question Agreement vs. All Others*

OR (95% CI)**
Patient experience I was comfortable with the privacy and security CD 1.18 (0.41, 3.35)
Both 0.68 (0.25, 1.83)
Other 0.58 (0.28, 1.21)
Visit was not delayed or postponed CD 0.84 (0.31, 2.27)
Both 0.53 (0.19, 1.46)
Other 0.50 (0.24, 1.04)
Patient perspective I like having direct access to my exam images CD 0.72 (0.13, 4.02)
Both 1.04 (0.11, 9.51)
Other 0.35 (0.10, 1.17)
I like having direct access to my medical records CD 0.36 (0.04, 3.51)
Both 0.79 (0.03, 20.20)
Other 0.13 (0.02, 0.79)
It was critically important that my doctor viewed my medical image quickly CD 0.93 (0.30, 2.88)
Both 6.42 (0.36, 113.94)
Other 0.83 (0.34, 2.04)
In general, I am particularly concerned about maintaining the privacy of my health records CD 1.49 (0.79, 2.83)
Both 1.26 (0.62, 2.56)
Other 1.36 (0.83, 2.24)

Answers were grouped by modality of image sharing used by patients.

*

The Likert scale was dichotomized into two groups for the analysis: agree and strongly agree combined vs neutral, disagree, and strongly disagree combined.

**

Results of logistic regression using the Internet as the reference group.