title: Conflicts over control and use of medical records at the New York hospital before the standardization movement.
abstract: Historians of medicine generally credit the hospital standardization movement of the early 20th century with establishing the record as a sign of hospital and staff quality. The medical record's role had already been the subject of intense interest at the New York Hospital several decades before, however. In the 1880s malpractice and insurance concerns caused the administration to attempt to supervise record creation, quality, and access, over the objections of physicians. Contemporary concerns about the uses of the medical record were in play well before 1910.
authors.affiliation: Geriatric Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, USA.
authors.forename: Eugenia L
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Siegler
authors.forename: Andrew B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Cohen
mesh_terms: D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006739:Hospital Administration / Q000266:history; D006761:Hospitals / Q000266:history*; D006801:Humans; D008499:Medical Records / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000592:standards; D009519:New York City