Hospital consent for disclosure of medical records

J F Merz; P Sankar; S S Yoo

doi:10.1111/j.1748-720x.1998.tb01425.x

Hospital consent for disclosure of medical records

J Law Med Ethics. 1998 Fall;26(3):241-8, 179. doi: 10.1111/j.1748-720x.1998.tb01425.x.

Authors

J F Merz¹, P Sankar, S S Yoo

Affiliation

¹ Department of Molecular and Cellular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.

PMID: 11066882
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-720x.1998.tb01425.x

Abstract

Disclosure of information clauses in general consent-to-treatment forms used by 202 large hospitals nationwide are described and mapped into a taxonomy to distinguish types of disclosures and to help structure consent documents.

Publication types

Multicenter Study
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Biomedical Research
Confidentiality* / legislation & jurisprudence
Consent Forms*
Contracts
Data Collection
Disclosure*
Forms and Records Control / legislation & jurisprudence
Forms and Records Control / statistics & numerical data*
Hospital Administration / statistics & numerical data*
Humans
Information Management / legislation & jurisprudence
Information Management / statistics & numerical data*
Law Enforcement
Medical Records* / legislation & jurisprudence
Organizational Policy
Patient Advocacy
Research Subjects
Tissue Donors
Tissue and Organ Procurement
United States