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Correspondence

Correspondence Dear Editor, Patient access to medical records I read with great interest Parts I and II of 'Patient complex and demands on medical staff more intense. Access to Medical Information' published in the March Our questionnaire was planned to be administered to and June 1988 issues respectively. Congratulations to a total of 144 patients on the wards of four hospitals in Johanna Westbrook for her comprehensive discussion NSW, two small (less than 200 beds) hospitals and two of the literature in 'Part I: a review of the issues' and large (more than 600 beds) teaching hospitals. Ofthe two Johanna and Michelle Nugent for the report of their larger hospitals, one refused our request to interview study of doctors' views in 'Part II: a survey of medical patients, and the other would only allow interviews of practitioners' attitudes'. patients waiting to be admitted in the Admissions Cen­ To those interested in this topic, I can recommend an tre. This drastically reduced the number of patients article by Bernstein, Andrews and Weaver (1981). They interviewed and the balance of size of hospital. The final cite a survey by Altman, Reich and Kelly (1980) in which number of respondents was 61, with http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian Medical Record Journal SAGE

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Publisher
SAGE
Copyright
© 1988 Health Information Management Association of Australia Limited
ISSN
0817-3907
eISSN
1833-3575
DOI
10.1177/183335838801800309
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Abstract

Dear Editor, Patient access to medical records I read with great interest Parts I and II of 'Patient complex and demands on medical staff more intense. Access to Medical Information' published in the March Our questionnaire was planned to be administered to and June 1988 issues respectively. Congratulations to a total of 144 patients on the wards of four hospitals in Johanna Westbrook for her comprehensive discussion NSW, two small (less than 200 beds) hospitals and two of the literature in 'Part I: a review of the issues' and large (more than 600 beds) teaching hospitals. Ofthe two Johanna and Michelle Nugent for the report of their larger hospitals, one refused our request to interview study of doctors' views in 'Part II: a survey of medical patients, and the other would only allow interviews of practitioners' attitudes'. patients waiting to be admitted in the Admissions Cen­ To those interested in this topic, I can recommend an tre. This drastically reduced the number of patients article by Bernstein, Andrews and Weaver (1981). They interviewed and the balance of size of hospital. The final cite a survey by Altman, Reich and Kelly (1980) in which number of respondents was 61, with

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Australian Medical Record JournalSAGE

Published: Sep 1, 1988

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