title: Patient responses to request for written permission to review medical records.
abstract: 2,163 patients of 55 physicians in one county, were sent letters asking for their written permission to have their medical records audited by the University of Michigan research team. The overall positive response rate was 64.1% for one county. Differences in response rates were statistically significant among specialties, among diagnoses, and among individual physicians.
mesh_terms: D003256:Community Participation; D003219:Confidentiality; D006801:Humans; D008485:Medical Audit; D008499:Medical Records; D008824:Michigan; D011320:Primary Health Care