RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Communication Gaps Persist Between Primary Care and Specialist Physicians
JF The Annals of Family Medicine
JO Ann Fam Med
FD American Academy of Family Physicians
SP 343
OP 347
DO 10.1370/afm.2781
VO 20
IS 4
A1 Lori Timmins
A1 Lisa M. Kern
A1 Ann S. O’Malley
A1 Carol Urato
A1 Arkadipta Ghosh
A1 Eugene Rich
YR 2022
UL http://www.annfammed.org/content/20/4/343.abstract
AB A survey conducted with data from 2008 found that physicians often do not communicate with each other at the time of referral or after consultation. Communication between physicians might have improved since then, with the dissemination of electronic health records (EHRs), but this is not known. We used 2019 survey data to measure primary care physicians’ perceptions of communication at the time of referral and after consultation. We found that large gaps in communication persist. The similarity between these survey results suggests that despite the dissemination of EHRs, physicians still do not consistently communicate with each other about the patients they share.