Patients, privacy and trust: Patients' willingness to allow researchers to access their medical records

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 223-235

  Damschroder, Laura J ^a,b   Pritts, Joy L ^c   Neblo, Michael A ^d   Kalarickal, Rosemarie J ^b   Creswell, John W ^e   Hayward, Rodney A ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Deliberative democracy; Health insurance portability and accountability act (hipaa); Health policy; Medical records; Privacy; Trust; USA

Indexed keywords

ETHICS; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH STATUS; RECORD; RESEARCH;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PATIENT RIGHT; PRIVACY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TRUST; VETERAN; WELFARE;

AGED; CONFIDENTIALITY; ETHICS, RESEARCH; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; TRUST; UNITED STATES;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33751003263     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2006.08.045     Document Type: Article

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