A patient self-report disability identifier within health service electronic medical records: evaluation of patient, carer and clinician acceptability

Abstract

Background: A third of the 5.5 million Australians with a disability require adjustments to access healthcare effectively. Ensuring clinicians have timely information about a patient’s disability and care needs can support more responsive care. Disability Identifiers—brief question sets—offer a practical way to capture this information. However, their use in healthcare remains limited. To address this, a group of clinicians, consumers and researchers from five tertiary and quaternary health services in Victoria, Australia, co-designed and implemented a patient self-report Disability Identifier within Electronic Medical Record systems. This paper presents an evaluation of the acceptability of..