Physicians Frequently Fail To Inform Patients About Abnormal Test Results, Study Finds
Tuesday, June 23, 2009 - 00:14
in Health & Medicine
New research shows that physicians failed to report clinically significant abnormal test results to patients -- or to document that they had informed them -- in one out of every 14 cases of abnormal results. In some medical groups, the failure rate is close to zero; in others it is as high as one in four abnormal results.