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Six countries, six individuals: resourceful patients navigating medical records in Australia, Canada, Chile, Japan, Sweden and the USA

In the absence of international standards, widely differing attitudes and laws, medical and social cultures strongly influence whether and how patients may access their medical records in various settings of care. Reviewing records, including the notes clinicians write, can help shape how people par...

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Published in:BMJ open 2020-09, Vol.10 (9), p.e037016-e037016
Main Authors: Salmi, Liz, Brudnicki, Selina, Isono, Maho, Riggare, Sara, Rodriquez, Cecilia, Schaper, Louise K, Walker, Jan, Delbanco, Tom
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Language:English
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Summary:In the absence of international standards, widely differing attitudes and laws, medical and social cultures strongly influence whether and how patients may access their medical records in various settings of care. Reviewing records, including the notes clinicians write, can help shape how people participate in their own care. Aided at times by new technologies, individual patients and care partners are repurposing existing tools and designing innovative, often ‘low-tech’ ways to collect, sort and interpret their own health information. To illustrate diverse approaches that individuals may take, six individuals from six nations offer anecdotes demonstrating how they are learning to collect, assess and benefit from their personal health information.
ISSN:2044-6055
2044-6055
DOI:10.1136/bmjopen-2020-037016