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Accepted for/Published in: JMIR Mental Health

Date Submitted: Apr 1, 2021
Open Peer Review Period: Apr 1, 2021 - May 27, 2021
Date Accepted: May 16, 2021
Date Submitted to PubMed: Jun 3, 2021
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The final, peer-reviewed published version of this preprint can be found here:

COVID-19 and Open Notes: A New Method to Enhance Patient Safety and Trust

Blease C, Salmi L, Hagglund M, Wachenheim D, DesRoches C

COVID-19 and Open Notes: A New Method to Enhance Patient Safety and Trust

JMIR Ment Health 2021;8(6):e29314

DOI: 10.2196/29314

PMID: 34081603

PMCID: 8218899

COVID-19 and Open Notes: A New Method to Enhance Patient Safety and Trust

  • Charlotte Blease; 
  • Liz Salmi; 
  • Maria Hagglund; 
  • Deborah Wachenheim; 
  • Catherine DesRoches

ABSTRACT

From April 5, 2021, as part of the 21st Century Cures Act, all providers in the US must offer patients access to the medical information housed in their electronic records. Via secure health portals, patients can login to access lab and test results, lists of prescribed medications, referral appointments, and the narrative reports written by clinicians (so-called ‘open notes’). As US providers implement this practice innovation, we describe six promising ways in which patient access to their notes might help address problems that either emerged with, or were exacerbated, by the COVID-19 pandemic


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Please cite as:

Blease C, Salmi L, Hagglund M, Wachenheim D, DesRoches C

COVID-19 and Open Notes: A New Method to Enhance Patient Safety and Trust

JMIR Ment Health 2021;8(6):e29314

DOI: 10.2196/29314

PMID: 34081603

PMCID: 8218899

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