Patients should have to opt out of national electronic care records

British Medical Journal

Volumn 333, Issue 7557, 2006, Pages 39-40

  Watson, Nigel ^a  

^a Wessex Local Medical Committees   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSENSUS; CONSULTATION; ELECTRONICS; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SERVICE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL RECORD; NOTE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL SECRECY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SOCIAL SECURITY; UNITED STATES; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SECURITY; CONFIDENTIALITY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; UNITED KINGDOM;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COMPUTER SECURITY; CONFIDENTIALITY; ENGLAND; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; SCOTLAND;

EID: 33745877619     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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