Evaluation of Patient Functionality and Utility of Web-Based Personal Health History and Risk Assess

Evaluation of Patient Functionality and Utility of Web-Based Personal Health History and Risk Assessment

The purpose of this research study is to find out what Moffitt and Lifetime patients think of the electronic medical records process.

Patient will complete a questionnaire about their knowledge of computers and how long they think it will take them to finish the patient health history using a computer.

Patient will complete the electronic record carefully and tell us if they had any difficulties, questions or comments about the format.

Patient will answer a questionnaire about how well they liked or did not like using the electronic system to give their health history.

Participation in this study will take approximately 30 minutes to 1 hour.

Inclusion Criteria:

• The breakdown of patients recruited by stratified dimensional sampling. Overall, we will attempt to equally recruit patients from the unique strata for each domain evaluation in this study. Patients health status will be determined by the ECOG Performance status . We assume that all patients being seen at the Lifetime Cancer Screening and Prevention center will be of good to fair health, while patients seen at the Cancer hospital will range from good- to- fair to poor health status. Gender is also used as a sampling factor because there are modules within this web-based health history forms that are specific for each gender.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Respondents who refuse to participate or who become too ill at any point in the assessment, will be excluded. Non-English speaking patients will be excluded. Names and other identifying information will not be collected and all data will be reported in aggregate form. Due to the nature of our stratified samples strategy, some patients will be excluded if they meet the criteria for a recruitment stata, but that stata is full.