JAMA NOTES
JAMA: 23-30 April 2019 Vol 321 Number 16 Page 1575
HEALTH AGENCIES UPDATE
Free App to Help Patients Ask Appropriate Questions
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In Today’s world, there seems to be a program/application for everything. This one, found on the above page, quotes a man named Jeff Brady who is a director in the agency AHQR (Agency For Healthcare Research and Quality), as following……. By asking appropriate questions in this application, patients can help reduce the chance of missed diagnoses, identify the right tests that are needed and avoid unnecessary hospital stays.
According to the article, this agency has produced the application called “Question Builder”. On it one can ask questions and input data that is then focused. Allegedly this then gives the participant a better- more useful bit of information so that that person can utilize the face time with the physician more efficiently. According to this article, many different devices can be used to access the application.