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One-Year Anniversary of the JAMA Patient Page

Richard M. Glass, MD; Jeff Molter; Mi Young Hwang, MSJ

JAMA. 1999;281:1544.

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This issue marks the 1-year anniversary of the JAMA Patient Page. In April 1998, JAMA launched the Patient Page as a public service to provide physicians with a tool to assist them in effectively communicating medical information to their patients.¹ The Patient Page always appears as the last editorial page in each issue, just inside the back cover, and the topic is linked to 1 or more articles in the issue.

During the past year, we have received a number of letters from physicians and other health care professionals in response to the Patient Page. We also solicited feedback from 4 focus groups conducted late last year (2 physician focus groups and 2 patient focus groups in Indianapolis, Ind, and Orlando, Fla). While the feedback included praise to JAMA for launching the Patient Page and most participants found it useful . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Author Affiliations: Dr Glass is Interim Coeditor, JAMA, Mr Molter is Director, Department of Science News, and Ms Hwang is Writer, JAMA Patient Page, American Medical Association, Chicago, Ill.