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Table 3 Perceptions of risks and consequences of unauthorized reading of medical records

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

 

I think the risk of unauthorized persons reading information from my record would be high

I think the consequences for me if unauthorized persons read my data would be serious

High-truster (n = 959/980)

26.6% (23.8–29.4)

30.3% (27.4–33.2)

Low-truster (n = 209/211)

59.3% (52.6–66.0)

54.0% (47.3–60.7)

  1. Estimations by individuals with high levels of trust (here ‘high-trusters’) and individuals with low levels of trust (here ‘low-trusters’) regarding the risk of unauthorized access to medical records if different healthcare units were to share medical records, and valuations of the consequences of such access. Results presented as proportions of those who responded “completely correct” or “fairly correct” with a 95% confidence interval