The effects of promoting patient access to medical records: A review

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 129-138

  Ross, Stephen E ^a,b   Lin, Chen Tan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b AOP/Internal Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; COMPREHENSION; CONFIDENTIALITY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; REVIEW;

CLINICAL TRIALS; HEALTH INSURANCE PORTABILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY ACT; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS; PATIENT ACCESS TO RECORDS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037356576     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M1147     Document Type: Review

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