The American Health Information Management Association has released a model Patient Request for Health Information form, which can be used as a modifiable template and given to patients when they ...

Patients curious about tests they took at medical clinics at the center of a hepatitis alert can request the results from medical laboratories. State and federal guidelines let any patient ask for ...

Many primary care physicians in the United States reported providing unnecessary medical care in response to patient requests; several factors predicted this behavior. Objectives: Evaluating ...

Patient-directed requests, however, are not required to have an expiration date, enabling a third party who is provided with a patient-directed request to copy it and use it indefinitely, thereby ...

(Reuters Health) - Patients may become less satisfied with their care when doctors refuse their requests for things like prescriptions or lab tests, a U.S. study suggests. Researchers examined data on ...

A registered nurse filed suit against Beaumont Health for allegedly honoring a patient's request not to be cared for by an African-American. Teoka S. Williams, who works at Beaumont Hospital in ...

Patients with cancer enrolled in a novel digital support registry requested an average of $5921 per patient in financial assistance, with housing needs comprising 59% of the total $1.32 million ...