Opportunities to enhance patient and physician e-mail contact.

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Published in Int J Med Inform on April 01, 2003

Authors

John Hobbs1, Jonathan Wald, Yamini S Jagannath, Anne Kittler, Lisa Pizziferri, Lynn A Volk, Blackford Middleton, David W Bates

Author Affiliations

1: Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

Associated clinical trials:

Web-based Smoking Cessation Intervention: Transition From Inpatient to Outpatient | NCT01277250

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