Patient Portal Use Near the End-of-Life

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This project is supported by the Palliative Care Research Cooperative Group funded by National Institute of Nursing Research (U2CNR01463) and a career development award from the National Institute on Aging (K76AG059934).

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  1. Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA

    Jennifer Dickman Portz PhD, MSW, David B. Bekelman MD, MPH & Jean S. Kutner MD, MSPH

  2. Institute for Health Research, Kaiser Permanente Colorado, Aurora, CO, USA

    Jennifer Dickman Portz PhD, MSW, J. D. Powers MS, M. Baldwin BA & Elizabeth Bayliss MD, MPH

  3. Department of Medicine, Department of Veterans Affairs, Eastern Colorado Health Care System, Aurora, CO, USA

    David B. Bekelman MD, MPH

  4. Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Alejandra Casillas MD

  5. Department of Family Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA

    Elizabeth Bayliss MD, MPH

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Portz, J.D., Powers, J.D., Baldwin, M. et al. Patient Portal Use Near the End-of-Life. J GEN INTERN MED (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-020-06333-9

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