Using patient portals to improve patient outcomes: Systematic review

JMIR Human Factors

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2019, Pages

  Han, Hae Ra ^a,b   Gleason, Kelly T ^a   Sun, Chun An ^a   Miller, Hailey N ^a   Kang, Soo Jin ^c   Chow, Sotera ^a   Anderson, Rachel ^a   Nagy, Paul ^d   Bauer, Tom ^e  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Daegu University   (South Korea)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Intervention study; Patient portal; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

EID: 85106497644     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22929495     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/15038     Document Type: Review

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