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Medical tests: don't forget to call for the results.

Publication: HealthFacts
Publication Date: 01-JUL-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
You go through the time, trouble, and expense of having a medical test. You don't call to learn the results, assuming all is well or the doctor would have called. In fact, some doctors never notify patients with serious abnormal test results, according to one of the rare studies on this topic. It found a 7% rate of either failure to inform patients of abnormal test results or failure to document in the medical record that the patients were informed. The study was led...

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