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Perioperative Patient Education (31) Orthopedics (101) Electronic Health Records (1334) Personal Health Records, Patient-Accessible Electronic Health Records, Patient Portals (704) eHealth Literacy / Digital Literacy (544) Patient-Accessible Health Records (including Open Notes) (16)

Published on in Vol 9 (2026)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/72035, first published .
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

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

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

Authors of this article:

Audrey Lynn Litvak1 Author Orcid Image ;   Nicholas Lin2 Author Orcid Image ;   Kelly Hynes3 Author Orcid Image ;   Jason Strelzow3 Author Orcid Image ;   Jeffrey G Stepan2 Author Orcid Image
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Audrey Lynn Litvak   1 * , BA ;   Nicholas Lin   2 * , MD ;   Kelly Hynes   3 * , MD ;   Jason Strelzow   3 * , MD ;   Jeffrey G Stepan   2 * , MD, MSc

1 Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

2 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Services, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

3 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO, United States

*all authors contributed equally

Corresponding Author:

  • Audrey Lynn Litvak, BA
  • Pritzker School of Medicine
  • University of Chicago
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  • Chicago, IL 60637
  • United States
  • Email: audreylitvak@uchicago.edu