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Personal Health Records, Patient-Accessible Electronic Health Records, Patient Portals (586) Digital Health Reviews (1318) Participatory Medicine & E-Patients (781) Consumer & Patient Education and Shared-Decision Making (688) Search Strategies and Retrieval for Systematic Reviews (13) Health Services Research (493)

Published on in Vol 23, No 9 (2021): September

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/26189, first published .
The Impact of Digital Patient Portals on Health Outcomes, System Efficiency, and Patient Attitudes: Updated Systematic Literature Review

The Impact of Digital Patient Portals on Health Outcomes, System Efficiency, and Patient Attitudes: Updated Systematic Literature Review

The Impact of Digital Patient Portals on Health Outcomes, System Efficiency, and Patient Attitudes: Updated Systematic Literature Review

Authors of this article:

Elettra Carini1 Author Orcid Image ;   Leonardo Villani1 Author Orcid Image ;   Angelo Maria Pezzullo1 Author Orcid Image ;   Andrea Gentili1 Author Orcid Image ;   Andrea Barbara2, 3 Author Orcid Image ;   Walter Ricciardi1 Author Orcid Image ;   Stefania Boccia1, 4 Author Orcid Image
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