Patients' access to their own psychiatric records.

Morris Bernadt, L Gunning, M. Quenstedt

BMJ · 1991 · 36 citations · 2 references

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The Access to Health Records Act 1990 takes effect on 1 November\n1991. From that date people will have the right of access to their own\nmanually held health records, but not to information collected before that\ndate. Whether we need to alter what we write might depend on what patients\nthink of what we write now, and we decided to elicit patients' opinions about\npsychiatric case records as currently compiled. We also wished to see whether\nadverse patient responses depended on diagnosis or demographic details such as\nsocial class.

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