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Age, gender, race, education, self-reported chronic conditions, and the Newest Vital Sign health literacy measure were available from cohort data.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Results Most patients (93.4%) had a patient portal access code generated for them, and among these 57.5% registered their accounts. In multivariable analyses, White patients (P &amp;lt; .001) and college graduates were more likely to have registered their patient portal (P = .015). Patients with marginal (P = .034) or adequate (P &amp;lt; .001) health literacy were also more likely to have registered their patient portal. Among those registering their accounts, most had messaged their physician (90%), checked a test result (96%), and ordered a reauthorization (55%), but few monitored their vital statistics (11%). Adequate health literacy patients were more likely to have used the messaging function (P = .003) and White patients were more likely to have accessed test results (P = .004). Higher education was consistently associated with prescription reauthorization requests (all P &amp;lt; .05).<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Discussion Among older American adults, there are stark health literacy, educational, and racial disparities in the registration, and subsequent use of an online patient portal. These population sub-group differences may exacerbate existing health disparities.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Conclusions If patient portals are implemented, intervention strategies are needed to monitor and reduce disparities in their use.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/jamia\/ocv025","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,4,26]],"date-time":"2015-04-26T00:11:09Z","timestamp":1430007069000},"page":"888-895","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":141,"title":["Disparities in registration and use of an online patient portal among older adults: findings from the LitCog cohort"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"22","author":[{"given":"Samuel G","family":"Smith","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA"},{"name":"Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, London, 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