An email-based intervention to improve the number and timeliness of letters sent from the hospital outpatient clinic to the general practitioner: A pair-randomized controlled trial

• Stephanie Medlock ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: s.k.medlock@amc.uva.nl

  Affiliation Department of Medical Informatics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2679-8095

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• Juliette L. Parlevliet,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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• Danielle Sent,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Informatics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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• Saeid Eslami,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medical Informatics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Pharmaceutical Research Center, School of Pharmacy, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran

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• Marjan Askari,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medical Informatics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Universiteit Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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• Derk L. Arts,

  Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Informatics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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• Joost B. Hoekstra,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Department of Internal Medicine, St Antonius Hospital, Nieuwegein, the Netherlands

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• Sophia E. de Rooij,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, University Center of Geriatric Medicine, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

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• Ameen Abu-Hanna

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Informatics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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