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Association of Primary Care Physicians’ Electronic Inbox Activity Patterns with Patients’ Likelihood to Recommend the Physician

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This work was supported by an American Medical Association Practice Transformation Initiative grant (contract number 19450).

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  1. Brigham and Women’s Hospital Division of General Internal Medicine, Boston, USA

    Lisa S. Rotenstein MD, MBA, MSc, Jianyi Zhang PhD, Richard Gitomer MD, MBA & David W. Bates MD, MSc

  2. Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

    Lisa S. Rotenstein MD, MBA, MSc, Richard Gitomer MD, MBA & David W. Bates MD, MSc

  3. Yale Department of Emergency Medicine, New Haven, USA

    Edward R. Melnick MD, MHS

  4. Mayo Clinic Department of Emergency Medicine, Rochester, USA

    Molly Jeffery PhD

  5. American Medical Association, Chicago, USA

    Christine A. Sinsky MD

  6. Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA

    David W. Bates MD, MSc

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Dr. Rotenstein reports receiving grants from FeelBetter Inc and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality outside the submitted work. Dr. Melnick reported receiving grants from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality outside the submitted work. Dr. Bates reports grants and personal fees from EarlySense, personal fees from CDI Negev, equity from ValeraHealth, equity from Clew, equity from MDClone, personal fees and equity from AESOP, personal fees, and equity from FeelBetter, personal fees and equity from Guided Clinical Solutions and grants from IBM Watson Health, outside the submitted work. Dr. Sinsky is employed by the American Medical Association. The opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as American Medical Association policy.

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Rotenstein, L.S., Melnick, E.R., Jeffery, M. et al. Association of Primary Care Physicians’ Electronic Inbox Activity Patterns with Patients’ Likelihood to Recommend the Physician. J GEN INTERN MED 39, 150–152 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-023-08417-8

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