Patient-initiated electronic health record amendment requests.
Providing patients access to their medical records offers many potential benefits including identification and correction of errors. The process by which patients ask for changes to be made to their records is called an 'amendment request'. Little is known about the nature of such amendment requests and whether they result in modifications to the chart.
Author(s): Hanauer, David A, Preib, Rebecca, Zheng, Kai, Choi, Sung W
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2013-002574