AHRQ Patient Safety Network ► Patient access to electronic health records during hospitalization.

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Allowing inpatients to see their own notes was well accepted by patients and doctors, but didn't catch errors or improve discharge.JAMA Intern Med. 2015 Mar 9; [Epub ahead of print].

Patient access to electronic health records during hospitalization.

Pell JM, Mancuso M, Limon S, Oman K, Lin CT. JAMA Intern Med. 2015 Mar 9; [Epub ahead of print].

In this study, allowing hospitalized patients to access their own medical records as a patient engagementstrategy did not increase clinician workload or patient worry, but patients did not identify errors on theirmedication list or better understand discharge. Although enabling patient access to records in real-time did not have adverse effects, it did not appreciably improve patient safety in this modest sample.

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