Lee B, Klein J, Oster N, et al., Generalist physicians’ challenges in understanding specialists’ clinic notes, Postgraduate Medical Journal, 2018;94(1108), 122–123.
Millions of patients now have online access to their full electronic medical record, including the clinic notes from general and specialty physicians.1–4 At our institution, all clinic notes have been accessible to patients via a secure patient portal since October 2014,5 Subsequently, some patients are now asking their generalist physicians to answer questions about subspecialists’ clinic notes.
We conducted the first known survey to assess general physicians’ self-assessed understanding of specialty ophthalmology clinic notes. While general physicians’ understanding of patients’ eye care issues has substantial clinical relevance, we hypothesised that eye clinic notes might be challenging for primary care providers to understand.
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