Access to case records at the County Hospital in Vordingborg
Raben, H.; Pedersen, H.M.; Pedersen, L.
Ugeskrift for Laeger 152(21): 1531-1533
1990
ISSN/ISBN: 0041-5782 PMID: 2360273 Document Number: 360765
During 1987, all requests for access to case records at the Psychiatric Hospital in Vordingborg were registered prospectively. Fifty-nine patients made a total of 69 requests for access to case records. The total time used by the staff in connection with the requests was 51 hours and 47 minutes. Of all the patients admitted to the hospital in 1987 only 3.7% asked for access to case records. No serious problems in relation to this were registered. There was a significant tendency for the younger patients, the patients with non-psychotic disorders, and especially patients with borderline disorders to ask for access to their records more frequently.