Devil in the details: understanding the effects of providing electronic health record access to patients and families.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Empowering patients through clinical notes access: Opportunities, challenges, and the path forward.PLOS digital health · 2025
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2. Digital technologies in primary care: Implications for patient care and future research.The European journal of general practice · 2022
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3. Alignment of Key Stakeholders' Priorities for Patient-Facing Tools in Digital Health: Mixed Methods Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2021
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4. Access to an Electronic Health Record: A Polish National Survey.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020
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Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  Impact of providing patients access to electronic health records on quality and safety of care: a systematic review and meta-analysis.2020

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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