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Re: Patient Preferences for Receiving Reports of Test Results

Viroj Wiwanitkit
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine March 2016, 29 (2) 290; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2016.02.150367
Viroj Wiwanitkit
Surin Rajabhat University Surin, Thailand
MD, FRFM
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To the Editor: The recent report by LaRocque et al1 titled “Patient Preferences for Receiving Reports of Test Results” is very interesting. The authors mentioned that “participants demonstrated preferences in how they received test results by non–in-person communication methods, preferring personal E-mail and password-protected websites, but they did not prefer fax.1” Of interest, the new information technology seems to be a useful technology for laboratory result distribution. However, there are many concerns about the system. First, in laboratory medicine, quality control of the postanalytic phase has to cover result reporting.2 There must be the system to validate the correctness of the results in the IT system. Second, privacy and data protection become important issues. We must be well prepared to prevent hackers from hacking the database and laboratory result–reporting IT system.3 Third, it should also be noted that some patients might not want to know their results, and this is their right.4 There must be a specific operation for not uploading the data for these cases into the IT system.

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  • The authors of the original article are in agreement with the author and declined to comment.

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    . [New risks of addiction for new populations: the example of hackers]. Ann Med Interne (Paris) 2000;151(Suppl B):B49–52.
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    . Right not to know the investigation result. J Med Assoc Thai 2008;91:595–6.
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