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COMMENTS AND OPINIONS
HEALTH CARE REFORM
Giving Patients Their Results Online Might Be the Answer—Reply
Lawrence P. Casalino, MD, PhD;
Daniel P. Dunham, MD, MPH;
Marshall H. Chin, MD, MPH;
Rebecca Bieland, MD;
Emily O. Kistner, PhD;
Theodore G. Karrison, PhD;
Michael K. Ong, MD, PhD;
Urimala Sarkar, MD, MPH;
Margaret A. McLaughlin, MD;
David O. Meltzer, MD, PhD
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We agree with the correspondents' suggestions and thank them for the very helpful specific examples they provide. We add a few comments herein.
Chistensen and Oldenburg convincingly describe the use of electronic portals for patients to access their test results. As such portals are refined and become more widely available, they are likely to be very useful to both patients and physician practices. Whether they use such portals, physicians should design their systems for managing test results so that they work well for vulnerable patients: those who are elderly, cognitively impaired, relatively uneducated, speak English poorly, and/or have multiple medical conditions. A recent study . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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