{
  "abstract": "We read with interest the recent publication in the Journal of Clinical Pathology by Ranot et al entitled “If you provide them, they will come: an observational study of online pathology report access by patients at a large, academic, tertiary care hospital in Canada”.1 They found that “53% of patients accessed their report before the treating physician”.",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Molecular Medicine and Cell Therapy Foundation, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy"
      ],
      "name": "Rodolfo Montironi"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Pathological Anatomy, University of Udine, Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy"
      ],
      "name": "Alessia Cimadamore"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Pathology and Surgery, Universidad de Cordoba Facultad de Medicina y Enfermeria, Cordoba, Spain"
      ],
      "name": "Antonio Lopez-Beltran"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Urology, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland"
      ],
      "name": "Eamonn T Rogers"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Department of Surgery (Urology), Brown University Warren Alpert Medical School, the Legorreta Cancer Center at Brown University, and Brown University Health, Providence, Rhode Island, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Liang Cheng"
    }
  ],
  "title": "Patients review their pathology reports before their treating physician: heading towards patient autonomy? Focus on prostate cancer",
  "uid": "6049a82c-6fdf-51db-b3c3-fcfee7e7a3de"
}