title: Patients' views on reference to clinical data.
abstract: In order to survey patients' views on reference to clinical data for research purposes, an anonymous self-administered questionnaire was distributed to Aichi Cancer Center Hospital patients in 1995. All eligible first-visit outpatients (97 persons), randomly selected revisit outpatients (99 persons), and all eligible inpatients in a good condition at discharge except six cases (97 persons), responded to the questionnaire. Out of 293 patients (115 males, 174 females and 4 unspecified), 85.3% (standard error 2.1%) considered that hospitals should make active efforts to improve their health care and treatment skills. And 88.1% (standard error 1.9%) answered that reference to their own clinical data to improve health care and treatment skills was "preferable" or "don't mind".
authors.affiliation: Division of Epidemiology, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Nagoya, Japan.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Hamajima
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tajima
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006302:Health Services Research; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010045:Outpatients; D017060:Patient Satisfaction / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011639:Public Opinion; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data* / Q000639:trends