Sharing online clinical notes with patients: implications for nocebo effects and health equity

Patients in around 20 countries worldwide are now offered online access to at least some of their medical records. Access includes test results, medication lists, referral information, and/or the very words written by clinicians (so-called ‘open notes’). In this paper, I discuss the possibility of o...

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主要作者: Blease, Charlotte (Author)
格式: 電子 Article
語言:English
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出版: 2023
In: Journal of medical ethics
Year: 2023, 卷: 49, 發布: 1, Pages: 14-21
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