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Patient-perceived usefulness of on-line electronic medical records: Employing grounded theory in the development of information and communication technologies for use by patients living with chronic illness
Winkelman WJ, Leonard KJ, Rossos PG. Patient-perceived usefulness of on-line electronic medical records: Employing grounded theory in the development of information and communication technologies for use by patients living with chronic illness. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 2005 Jan 31; [Epub ahead of print].

The authors conclude that patient access to on-line medical records is not, in itself, useful to IBD patients but must be integrated into an existing health and psycho-social support system.

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