Frequency of Failure to Inform Patients of Clinically Significant Outpatient Test Results
Author(s) -
Lawrence P. Casalino,
Daniel P. Dunham,
Marshall H. Chin,
Rebecca Bielang,
Emily O. Kistner,
Theodore Karrison,
Michael Ong,
Urmimala Sarkar,
Margaret A. McLaughlin,
David O. Meltzer
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
archives of internal medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1538-3679
pISSN - 0003-9926
DOI - 10.1001/archinternmed.2009.130
Subject(s) - medical record , test (biology) , odds ratio , odds , medicine , electronic medical record , logistic regression , retrospective cohort study , medline , family medicine , emergency medicine , medical emergency , political science , law , paleontology , biology
Failing to inform a patient of an abnormal outpatient test result can be a serious error, but little is known about the frequency of such errors or the processes for managing results that may reduce errors.
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