Informed Consent: Does Anyone Really Understand What Is Contained In The Medical Record?
Despite efforts to provide standard definitions of terms such as "medical record", "computer-based patient record", "electronic medical record" and "electronic health record", the terms are still used interchangeably. Initiatives like data and information governance, research biorepositories, and learning health systems require availability and reuse of data, as well as common understandings of the scope for specific purposes. Lacking widely shared definitions, utilization of the afore-mentioned terms in research informed consent [...]
Author(s): Fenton, S H, Manion, F, Hsieh, K, Harris, M
DOI: 10.4338/ACI-2014-09-SOA-0081