Assessing the Effects of eHealth Literacy and the Area Deprivation Index on Barriers to Electronic Patient Portal Use for Orthopedic Surgery: Cross-Sectional Observational Study.

Patients who reported barriers also had higher median national ADI than patients who did not report barriers (55.5, IQR 37.5-78.2 vs 51.0, IQR 32.0-70.0; P =.06), and a higher percentage of patients from the most deprived ADI quartile also reported barriers compared to patients from the least deprived ADI quartiles (most deprived ADI quartile [76-100], 37/70, 53% vs second most deprived ADI quartile [51-75], 35/87, 40% vs second least deprived ADI quartile [26-50], 29/70, 41% vs least deprived ADI quartile [1-25], 19/55, 35%; P =.19); however, these results did not reach statistical significance ( Table 2 ).

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