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.