Email for communicating results of diagnostic medical investigations to patients.

Barbara Meyer; Helen Atherton; Prescilla Sawmynaden; Josip Car

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Email for communicating results of diagnostic medical investigations to patients.

October 10, 2012

Meyer B, Atherton H, Sawmynaden P, et al. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2012.

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Although direct communication of results to patients via email has been proposed as a strategy to prevent failure to follow up on test results, this systematic review did not find any controlled studies evaluating the effectiveness of this approach.

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