"You've Got Mail"-Receiving Bad News Through a Patient Portal

JAMA Oncol. 2023 Jun 1;9(6):757-758. doi: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2023.0422.

Author

Keith M Bellizzi¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs.

PMID: 37079295
DOI: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2023.0422

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This Viewpoint discusses the impersonalization of delivering bad news to patients through a patient portal rather than in person.

MeSH terms

Humans
Patient Portals*
Physician-Patient Relations
Postal Service