Email updates   Open Access Research article  Providing cell
phone numbers and email addresses to Patients: the physician's
perspective  Roni Peleg*, Angelika Avdalimov and Tamar Freud
Author Affiliations  Department of Family Medicine and Siaal
Research Center for Family Practice and Primary Care, Faculty of
Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva,
Israel  For all author emails, please log on.  BMC Research
Notes 2011, 4:76  doi:10.1186/1756-0500-4-76  Published: 23
March 2011    The provision of cell phone numbers and email
addresses enhances the accessibility of medical consultations,
but can add to the burden of physicians' routine clinical
practice and affect their free time. The objective was to assess
the attitudes of physicians to providing their telephone number
or email address to patients.   Primary care physicians in the
southern region of Israel completed a structured questionnaire
that related to the study objective.   The study population
included 120 primary care physi