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Access to health records: psychiatric patients and patients with diabetes compared

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Arun Jha ,
Morris Bernadt ,
Ken Brown ,
Elizabeth Sawicka  and
George Stein
Arun Jha
Affiliation:
West Herts Community Health NHS Trust, Logandene, Hertfordshire
Morris Bernadt*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological Medicine, King's College Hospital, 103 Denmark Hill London SE5 9RS
Ken Brown
Affiliation:
Famborough Hospital, Kent
Elizabeth Sawicka
Affiliation:
Famborough Hospital, Kent
George Stein
Affiliation:
Famborough Hospital, Kent
*
∗Correspondence
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Abstract

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This study was undertaken to assess whether psychiatric patients respond more adversely to reading their own records than non-psychiatric patients. Seventy-three psychiatric out-patients and 84 out-patients with diabetes were posted their main clinical summary with a questionnaire about it. For seven of the eight questions, more than 70% of both patient groups gave favourable ratings. However, the psychiatric patients gave significantly less favourable responses than the patients with diabetes on five of the eight questions. Fourteen of 73 (19%) psychiatric patients were upset by reading the clinical summary about themselves compared with four of 84 (5%) patients with diabetes.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 22 , Issue 5 , May 1998 , pp. 309 - 312
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Copyright © 1998 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

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