Test result communication in primary care: clinical and office staff perspectives.

Ian Litchfield; Louise Bentham; Richard J. Lilford; Sheila Greenfield

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Test result communication in primary care: clinical and office staff perspectives.

August 20, 2014

Litchfield I, Bentham L, Lilford RJ, et al. Fam Pract. 2014;31(5):592-7.

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The communication of test results is a key activity for primary care practices. However, this qualitative study discovered that current systems for communicating test results vary widely across practices and pose many crucial pitfalls, such as the lack of a method for detecting delayed or missing results.

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