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The Patient Portal And Abnormal Test Results: An Exploratory Study Of Patient Experiences, Traber Giardina, Varsha Modi, Danielle Parrish, Hardeep Singh
The Patient Portal And Abnormal Test Results: An Exploratory Study Of Patient Experiences, Traber Giardina, Varsha Modi, Danielle Parrish, Hardeep Singh
Patient Experience Journal
Many health care institutions are implementing patient portals that allow patients to track and maintain their personal health information, mostly in response to the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act requirements. Test results review is an area of high interest to patients and provides an opportunity to foster their involvement in preventing abnormal test results from being overlooked, a common patient safety concern. However, little is known about how patients engage with portals to review abnormal results and which strategies could facilitate that interaction in order to ensure safe follow-up on abnormalities. The objective of this qualitative …