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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: AJOB Empir Bioeth. 2020 Apr 27;11(3):172–186. doi: 10.1080/23294515.2020.1755383

Table 3.

Participant Views on Acceptability of Approaches to Permission for Research Use of EHR data

TOTAL Cabarrus Durham Mingo Quitman p-value*
n (%) n (%) n (%) n (%) n (%)
Is the approach acceptable?
 General Notification
  No 30 (25) 3 (10) 5 (16) 11 (39) 11 (36) 0.02
  Yes 90 (75) 27 (90) 26 (84) 17 (61) 20 (64)
 Broad Permission
  No 5 (4) 0 (0) 1 (3) 2 (7) 2 (7) 0.50
  Yes 115 (96) 30 (100) 30 (97) 26 (93) 29 (93)
 Categorical Permission
  No 13 (11) 5 (17) 3 (10) 2 (7) 3 (10) 0.68
  Yes 107 (89) 25 (83) 28 (90) 26 (93) 28 (90)

Acceptability of alternative response options for Broad Permission
 Opt-Out
  No 23 (19) 6 (20) 4 (13) 7 (25) 6 (19) 0.71
  Yes 97 (81) 24 (80) 27 (87) 21 (75) 25 (81)
 Opt-In
  No 11 (9) 1 (3) 4 (13) 3 (11) 3 (10) 0.61
  Yes 109 (91) 29 (97) 27 (87) 25 (89) 28 (90)
*

p-values obtained using Pearson chi-square tests.