Klein J, Jackson S, Osteer N, at al. Who Reads Their Doctor’s Notes? Examining the Association between Preconceptions and Accessing Online Clinical Notes. AHIMA 89, no.1 (January 2018): 28-33
Patients who use online portals to review their clinicians’ notes may become more actively involved in their healthcare, but the healthcare industry knows little about factors that may facilitate or inhibit patients’ use of this new practice. To look into this topic, researchers from the University of Washington School of Medicine, based in Seattle, WA, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, based in Boston, MA, compared baseline perceptions about online portals between patients who ultimately did or did not access their doctors’ primary care visit notes, using data collected through the OpenNotes initiative.
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