Copying letters to patients: Most patients want copies of letters from outpatient clinics and find them useful
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Copying letters to patients--will it happen?
Protection Act 9 and the Access to Medical Records Act 10 all establish a right of access by individuals to reports relating to themselves provided by medical practitioners, and data about them. Access can only be denied where the information may cause serious harm to the physical or mental health condition of the patients or any other person, or where giving access would disclose information r...
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BACKGROUND As part of the NHS plan it was suggested that all patients receive copies of letters sent to their General Practitioner following outpatient consultations. The former Secretary of State for Health extended this proposal, suggesting that patients have a specific letter to themselves after a hospital consultation. METHODS The aim of this study was to send cardiorespiratory patients a...
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In April 2004 guidelines were introduced advising that letters to the GP should be copied to parents of young people. A study was carried out to ascertain the views of young people and their parents as to who they felt should receive correspondence after an outpatient appointment.
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Traditionally, correspondence between clinicians and general practitioners is kept secret unless shown or read to the patient by the general practitioner. For most patients there seems to be no good reason for such a closed approach. It has been shown that most patients would welcome clinical information about themselves.' 2 We have investigated whether routine clinic letters might be of intere...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.327.7412.451