Acute care patient portals: a qualitative study of stakeholder perspectives on current practices.

Objective: To describe current practices and stakeholder perspectives of patient portals in the acute care setting. We aimed to: (1) identify key features, (2) recognize challenges, (3) understand current practices for design, configuration, and use, and (4) propose new directions for investigation and innovation.

Materials And Methods: Mixed methods including surveys, interviews, focus groups, and site visits with stakeholders at leading academic medical centers.

Not ready, not set…discharge: Patient-reported barriers to discharge readiness at an academic medical center.

Background: Planning for discharge from the hospital should begin early in each patient's stay and focus on the patient's needs.

Objective: To determine how often patient-reported barriers to discharge on admission were resolved by discharge and to explore associations between barriers and readmission.

Design, Setting, And Participants: A prospective observational study of patients admitted to an academic medical center.