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What's In A Message? The Impact Of Patient-Clinician Email Message Content On Patient Health Outcomes And Healthcare Utilization, Dawn M. Heisey-Grove
What's In A Message? The Impact Of Patient-Clinician Email Message Content On Patient Health Outcomes And Healthcare Utilization, Dawn M. Heisey-Grove
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Introduction
In the upcoming chapters, we present our study findings as three papers ready for submission to peer-reviewed journals. The first paper describes the associations between taxa and the characteristics of the patients and clinic staff who exchange those messages. The second paper explores the associations between those taxa and patients’ healthcare utilization. The third paper presents associations between taxa and patient health outcomes for diabetes and hypertension. We conclude with how the three papers are related and highlight the importance of this research.
Across the three papers, we reference a theory-based taxonomy we developed specifically for secure messaging. A …