Table 4.

physician questionnaire (response in percentages)

Item	Disagree	Neutral	Agree
The following is important to me about patients accessing the portal
1. Patients study the portal information before attending an appointment	31	62	8
2. Patients can see what we write about them	15	54	31
3. Patients can have all results available to them	15	15	69
4. Patients can use the portal as reference after an appointment	15	0	85
5. It more actively involves patients with their treatment	0	23	77
6. I think patients have the right to see their data	0	15	85
7. Portal information is written in plain language without medical jargon	39	39	23
8. Patients can only open information deliberately	0	15	85
9. The information to patients only is available when results are definite	0	0	100
10. The patient can not see information before an appointment with a physician	0	0	100
11. The patient is able to contact the hospital more easy	15	31	54
12. The patient is able to contact other patients	31	39	31
I worry about the following, when patients will use the patient portal
13. Patients get worried about accessing information before a physician appointment	0	8	92
14. Patients obtain information they don’t understand without the physicians’ support	0	0	100
15. The clinic appointment is focused more on portal details, instead of a personal conversation with the patient	8	15	77
16. The patient might feel obligated to study the patient portal before an appointment	46	39	15
17. The doctor-patient relationship might change	8	46	46
18. My workload might increase	15	31	54
19. I would get technical questions about the portal by patients	8	46	46
20. I might not respond soon enough to digital conversations and therefore the patient relationship changes	8	39	54
21. My schedule might have to change to account for patient portal activities	0	39	62