People who visit their primary care physician for routine blood tests or screenings are often not informed of the results, a new study finds. People Who Read This Also Read The failure of doctors and medical facilities to follow-up and give people test results is ‘relatively common,’ the researchers wrote, even when the results are abnormal and potentially troublesome, and affects one of every 14 tests. ‘If you’re a patient, it’s often assumed that no news is good news,’ acknowledged Dr. Lawrence P. Casalino, an associate professor and chief of the division of outcomes and effectiveness research in the public health department at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City and the study’s lead author. ‘But the bottom line is that is not always the case, and patients should not passively go along with that.’ Casalino and his colleagues report their findings in the June 22 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. The researchers reviewed the medical records of 5,434 people aged 50 to 69 years old. They focused on those who, in the previous year, had abnormal results on one of 11 blood tests or one of three screening tests at primary care facilities […]