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Re: Pap/Mammogram Result Notification From: Joanne Bulley, MD (islesannie@yahoo.com) Thu Sep 2 22:15:06 2004 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Efrain Ramirez: "Re: Pap/Mammogram Result Notification" Previous message: DMECNM@aol.com: "Re: Pap/Mammogram Result Notification" In reply to: Hugo D Ribot Jr: "Pap/Mammogram Result Notification" Next in thread: Efrain Ramirez: "Re: Pap/Mammogram Result Notification" At Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Hugo D Ribot Jr wrote: > >Dear Listers: > >Quick poll: > >Do you routinely notify all patients of Pap smear results? > >A) Yes - all patients get notified regardless of whether normal or not. >B) No >C) Only if abnormal A -- all by telephone. Even if you are 99.9% perfect - that means 1/1000 results are "lost" - and how do you know those are only normal ones that get lost? Therefore my policy is ALL results get direct notification to the patients - and they are ALL told that if they do not hear - to call us. >Do you routinely notify all patients of mammogram results? > >A) Yes - all patients get notified regardless of whether normal or not. >B) No >C) Only if abnormal A -- same as above. Even though the hospital sends outa letter - I still notify them. Th hospital "it is normal" letter has a single sentence saying that -- and w big paragraph that is the legal part - and makes you wonder if it really was normal! > >Do any of you utilise automated patient test result services such as >TeleMed? > NO - I want the patient to KNOW with certainty that I reviewed it before any notification. >Do any of you use other systems such as online services where the >patient can login to a web site to check her results? > >Thanks for your responses... > >-- >Hugo D. Ribot Jr., M.D., FACOG >Cartersville, Georgia >Private practice since 1990 >3 MDs/3 CNMs > -- Joanne Bulley, MD Keene, NH, USA "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." President Dwight D. Eisenhower April 16, 1953 Next message: Efrain Ramirez: "Re: Pap/Mammogram Result Notification" Previous message: DMECNM@aol.com: "Re: Pap/Mammogram Result Notification" In reply to: Hugo D Ribot Jr: "Pap/Mammogram Result Notification" Next in thread: Efrain Ramirez: "Re: Pap/Mammogram Result Notification"

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