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Table 2 Attitudes to different uses of electronic health data with or without consent

From: Trust and digital privacy in healthcare: a cross-sectional descriptive study of trust and attitudes towards uses of electronic health data among the general public in Sweden

 

No never

Yes with IC*

Yes without IC*

Medical follow up and of the quality of healthcare

   

 High-truster (n = 1177)

2.1% (1.3–2.9)

47.2% (44.3–50.1)

50.7% (47.8–53.6)

 Low-truster (n = 243)

5.8% (2.9–8.7)

66.2% (60.3–72.1)

28.0% (22.4–33.6)

Research

 

 High-truster (n = 1173)

2.3% (1.4–3.2)

59.4% (56.6–62.2)

38.3% (35.5–41.1)

 Low-truster (n = 243)

7.0% (3.8–10.2)

68.7% (62.9–74.5)

24.3% (18.9–29.7)

Clinical education

 

 High-truster (n = 1142)

3.3% (2.3–4.3)

66.0% (63.3–68.7)

30.7% (28.0–33.4)

 Low-truster (n = 229)

10.0% (6.1–13.9)

69.9% (64.0–75.8)

20.1% (14.9–25.3)

  1. The attitudes of those with high levels and low levels of trust (‘high-trusters’ and ‘low-trusters’), respectively, towards allowing authorized staff to use information in medical records for quality assurance, research, and educational purposes. Results presented as proportions with a 95% confidence interval
  2. *IC informed consent