How do patients in a rural setting respond to receiving a copy of their general practitioners letter?
McEniry, B.; Pillay, I.
Irish Medical Journal 101(3): 84-85
2008
ISSN/ISBN: 0332-3102 PMID: 18540547 Document Number: 618038
The practice of sending copies of General Practitioners (GPs) letters to patients is not new. As a team in Geriatric and general internal medicine in a rural secondary referral hospital, we asked patients for feedback on how they felt about copies of their GPs letters being sent to them. 126 (96%) of patients were not frightened by the letter. 110(85%) would prefer to continue receiving these letters. Patients in a rural setting want to receive letters about their own medical care.