Who uses the patient Internet portal? The PatientSite experience

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 91-95

  Weingart, Saul N ^a,c   Rind, David ^a   Tofias, Zachary ^a   Sands, Daniel Z ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Zix Corporation   (United States)

^c DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL LABORATORY; COHORT ANALYSIS; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL RECORD; ONLINE SYSTEM; PATIENT INFORMATION; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENTS; PILOT PROJECTS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

EID: 29244468932     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M1833     Document Type: Article

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