title: [Should patients automatically get copies of their medical reports?].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Since March 1997, the Department of Neurosurgery at Tromsø University Hospital has sent a copy of their medical report to all in-patients after discharge.
  
  
  METHODS
  We performed telephone interviews with 100 patients in order to obtain their views on getting a copy of the medical report after discharge.
  
  
  RESULTS
  All patients were satisfied with getting the report. They found the reports to be informative and a good supplement to the verbal information given at discharge. No-one, not even the seriously ill patients, had been frightened by the medical information in the reports.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Sending a copy of the medical report to all in-patients after discharge increases confidence between patient and doctor and improves patient satisfaction.
authors.affiliation: Nevrokirurgisk avdeling Universitetssykehuset i Nord-Norge 9038 Tromsø.
authors.forename: Jens Hugo
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Trumpy
mesh_terms: D022126:Access to Information; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008499:Medical Records; D008875:Middle Aged; D009664:Norway; D010351:Patient Discharge; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D013503:Surgery Department, Hospital; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
vernacular_title: Bør pasientene automatisk få kopi av sin epikrise?