Direct-to-patient laboratory test reporting: balancing access with effective clinical communication

JAMA. 2014 Jul;312(2):127-8. doi: 10.1001/jama.2014.5823.

Authors

Michael J Young¹, Ethan Scheinberg², Harold Bursztajn³

Affiliations

¹ Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts2Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
² Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
³ Harvard Medical School Program in Psychiatry and the Law of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston5American Unit of the UNESCO Bioethics Chair, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

PMID: 24933597
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2014.5823

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Access to Information
Communication*
Diagnostic Tests, Routine*
Disclosure
Humans
Medical Records / legislation & jurisprudence*
Physician-Patient Relations*
United States
United States Dept. of Health and Human Services